They are just doctors. No need to glorify them. They do no more or less than a bus driver. Most jobs have an emotional toll.
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Bosht@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Pediatric. Oncologist. That dude is an absolute hero and treasure for taking on such a horrible and bleak profession. I hate that those words are combined in existence at all. God I’m so ashamed to be an American.
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Angelusz@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Let’s agree to disagree. I respect bus drivers as much as you do. Some people, however, have a greater positive effect on humanity as a whole, and that deserves its own form of respect.
head_socj@midwest.social 4 weeks ago
I agree to disagree. Doctos may have a more immediate bad tangible benefit on people’s health and well-being, but providing safe and reliable public transportation to untold amounts of working class people who may rely on you to provide for their families is also a massive positive effect that should not be diminished simply for being less culturally prominent.
michaelmrose@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Its not being diminished you are diminishing doctors who save dying children after 20 years of intensive education with driving a bus
blackn1ght@feddit.uk 4 weeks ago
I’d have to imagine that the stress and emotional toll is significantly higher for a paediatric oncologist than a bus driver. There’s not so many people that could cope with that.
barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Good to know. Next time I have a medical issue, I’ll ask my bus driver for a diagnosis. What are your thoughts on subway drivers or Uber drivers?
misteloct@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Agreed, I would be equally angry if a bus driver were detained by ICE. Their immigrants status and then solidarity is more important than their profession.
shawn1122@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Having known several healthcare workers with PTSD from the pandemic I strongly disagree.
Granted the pandemic was traumatizing for people from all walks of life but I don’t envy hospital based nurses or doctors from that time.
It was so painful for nurses that many quit and we still have a nursing shortage today and likely for the next decade as a result.
Boomkop3@reddthat.com 4 weeks ago
You’re right though. We don’t need healthcare
Kage520@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Different energy. Bus driver has to deal with many potentially grumpy people in many potentially unsafe areas. Not an easy job.
A doctor that is specifically specializing in a field where he has to get to know and take care of children as they die in a potentially painful way, has a much different challenge. Less for safety or aggressive people (though maybe parents could be I guess) but more in being the one to watch as the hope fades for each individual child in their last days.
I wouldn’t love the bus driving job. I don’t think I could do the pediatric oncology one for more than like, one patient ever. I’d be depressed forever.
Necroscope0@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Some people are built different. My dad worked as a pediatric hospice nurse for almost 10 years. Talk about a shitty sad job. Every single patient is a child and every single one of them is GOING to die on your watch. Fuck THAT. I do not know how he did it.
shawn1122@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
I figure we have to have some angels to balance out the demons that end up in positions of prominence in our societies.
Boomkop3@reddthat.com 4 weeks ago
Now that is a hero