FlossyDFlynt said:
Mormad said:
FlossyDFlynt said:
packgrad said:
Shameful.
So what happens if heart disease comes into play for an obese patient? What about cancer for a smoker? As someone who has family working on the front lines, I completely understand the frustration. But if you pick and choose who you treat based on your beliefs, you are in the wrong profession.
As best i can tell these providers weren't walking out on patient care or refusing care. I can't find evidence of that. In fact, most articles state that this was done "before they went to work in the icu,..." This appears to be a simple demonstration to raise awareness. I haven't found evidence of picking and choosing based on beliefs. No different than a few of our docs being seen with walkouts here to protest when the hospital started requiring vaxxes to work. Was that shameful?
Forgive me then, I just saw the Twitter headlines. If thats how it went down, then I actually applaud them. Its a good way to hopefully raise awareness.
And that is one of the major issues we face on pretty much every topic now. And we are ALL guilty -- and lord knows the news agencies are guilty of fueling this.
1) Event happens
2) News agencies create lazy, incomplete, or misleading headline and/or photo
2a) Often item 2 seems consistent with the editorial slant of providing news agency
3) Readers --- often looking to either confirm their bias or confirm the bias they know is part of an agency, read only the headline, etc.
4) Get angry, fuels further distrust of everyone in teh system.
4a) Readers / consumers of the misinformation then apply their own biases and put a spin on it "shameful", or "see, I told you so", or other similar epitaph on social media platforms. Others partially consume that mis-information, etc, etc, etc....