> Spewing hate at the system or at practitioners is just fucking awful.
It's as awful as it is unwarranted.
> The system can’t afford to throw Dr. House and his team at every patient walking in off the street.
Telling a patient they're inoperable or not a candidate for immunotherapy or are going to die in 6 months from their disease is immoral and yet very common. It's really not difficult to just say to someone "based on my experience and the protocols we have at this institution, this is what I believe to be the case for your situation but you may find others with a different perspective".
There's a seriously depraved amount of egoism and elitism in the medical world, in particular among younger medical professionals.
> They’re essentially sitting there all day making trolley-track-payoff decisions.
Yes but that's precisely not their job in a non-emergency context. They're not philosophers, they're not Maimonides. Their job is to provide medical expertise, not make value judgements on behalf of patients or arrogate themselves to a level of expertise or knowledge they don't have.
It's as awful as it is unwarranted.
> The system can’t afford to throw Dr. House and his team at every patient walking in off the street.
Telling a patient they're inoperable or not a candidate for immunotherapy or are going to die in 6 months from their disease is immoral and yet very common. It's really not difficult to just say to someone "based on my experience and the protocols we have at this institution, this is what I believe to be the case for your situation but you may find others with a different perspective".
There's a seriously depraved amount of egoism and elitism in the medical world, in particular among younger medical professionals.
> They’re essentially sitting there all day making trolley-track-payoff decisions.
Yes but that's precisely not their job in a non-emergency context. They're not philosophers, they're not Maimonides. Their job is to provide medical expertise, not make value judgements on behalf of patients or arrogate themselves to a level of expertise or knowledge they don't have.