Hello friends, as someone who is currently in school to be a medical professional, I’d like to share something with you about my fellow premed/med students:
Whenever I am in a class of premed students, the professor will inevitably ask us to share what we want to improve in the profession, what we want our focus of progress to be.
They always expect us to say things like finding better cancer treatments or improved surgery methods or things like that, but that is never, and I mean NEVER what students say.
The professors are always shocked when students always, without fail, answer that they want to work on removing injustice, prejudice, mistreatment from the system.
We are a generation of people who have had our fair share of time in the emergency room after police violence, in front of a doctor begging for access to hormones, at a nurses station screaming about abnormal excessive bleeding and ovarian pain, crying on the phone with paramedics because our friends have knives held to their wrists, and had the medical professionals rationalize our pain away, tell us we’re overreacting, tell us we’re being dramatic, that they know better than we do, that it can’t possibly be that bad because look at us, we couldn’t possibly experience pain like that so young, how could we?
Except we can, and we have, and we do, and we don’t get the immediate care we desperately need because current medical professionals are biased against people’s age, color, sexuality, gender, because they look at someone different than them and think “they don’t feel pain like I do”.
My generation of doctors, nurses, paramedics? We’ve experienced that. We’ve been on the receiving end of that biased mistreatment more times than we can count.
And we’re gonna change it.
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