An acquaintance of mine just posted this about her jab!
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One detail that I don’t like is the quote from the doctor. It’s clearly a paraphrase, but I doubt that he said “as they have more birthday candles on their cake” like he was explaining age to a 5 year old. Maybe I’m wrong but that sounds like a blatant attempt to make the doctor sound more condescending. I totally buy that the weird eye change is possible, just that detail irks me for some reason. It’s like the the type of thing you see on a feminist blog talking about men demeaning women, when nobody in real life talks like that.
If he's also older, it'd be a believable comment. Older men know it's bad manners to be more blunt when mentioning a woman's age
Yeah, I guess the way it’s written just makes it sound really dumbed down and vaguely condescending. I didn’t consider the women—age angle, so I would mostly just have to say that I don’t know what is considered normal or appropriate then. It simply stood out to me as bizarre.
I spent 18 years transcribing medical reports. Sometimes what doctors told their patients, or thought of their patients, sounded condescending to me.
That’s fair. I suppose trying to explain complex medical phenomena to people without the necessary background knowledge could easily lead to a level of condescension, or at least the appearance of it when they dumb things down too much.
I'm college-educated and spent 20 years in corporate management before gravitating to medical transcription, where I was basically self-taught in terms of all the nomenclature and understanding of all things medical sufficient to transcribe, meaning I have some background knowledge and don't need anyone to dumb things down for me. When I suddenly became ill with intense pain in my right side, I told the first doctor I saw that I thought it was my appendix. The surgeon he consulted thought not. Four weeks later, after seeing five different physicians in total, and after being potentially diagnosed with things like Hep A and PID, and then being told I needed to schedule a colonoscopy, guess what? The original surgeon finally agreed It WAS my appendix, and then proceeded to inform me in a rather snotty way that I have a weird system because my temperature never exceeded 102 and my white counts were never what they expect to see with a raging infection. I also suspect it was because I managed to stay alive in spite of all their fumbling around. The surgeon's snotty remark about my 'weird system' felt plenty condescending to me.
A lot of doctors are condescending assholes.
I so do talk like that.
Old fogey drs. Say stupid shit like that, though.