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davetortoise@reddthat.com 1 month agoA huge number of Gen X and boomers have a strange idea that you’re supposed to distrust and challenge doctors constantly. Like they’re going to try to cheat you or something.
Possibly because in the past there was a notion that doctors would lie to their patients “for their own good”, and that the doctor’s decision about your care was something you had to just accept.
The notion that patients could advocate for their own care arose during the boomers’ lifetime.
That’s because a lot of doctors are untrustworthy (being people), and as the years roll by many have watched our loved ones suffer and die in horrifying pain
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It’s not that strange an idea given the extent to which the pharmaceutical industry essentially bribes doctors to prescribe their drugs, or the frequency with which health care organizations defraud Medicare and insurance companies, fraud which often takes the form of unnecessary medical procedures. Blindly trusting any professional is the strange idea (I agree that constant distrust is probably unhelpful).
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
Boy, isn’t that a great system?
This is all literally all not a thing here. Hospitals aren’t usually private businesses at all and taking bribes is in fact illegal.
Yet older generations still distrust doctors here too
Miaou@jlai.lu 1 month ago
Germany has mostly a public health system and yet doctors are mostly not to be trusted. Public sector can also be pressured into cutting corners
davetortoise@reddthat.com 1 month ago
Ah yeah. I’m from the UK and we don’t really experience that. Although the attitude still exists in the older generation