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jmole 1 hours ago [-]
It doesn't help that most hospitals essentially objectify patients these days.
When you are a patient, you are not a person, you are an object of medical care. There is an algorithm, a schedule; the arrival of new doctors and nurses at each shift change. They meet and talk with each other about how their objects are doing, and then they'll check in on you with a formal hello, 30 seconds of conversation, and then they'll leave.
If a patient has signs of mental illness, the providers draw straws to see who has the unlucky job of: "talk to the patient, but gently remind them that they are an object on a medical assembly line and probably nothing is going to happen until the next doctor comes around".
I don't know if hospitals have always been this way, or if we just romanticized them in the old movies. But unless you have a specific problem that medical intervention can solve (e.g., a medicine or a procedure), you are effectively a nobody, and there is nobody there that cares about you - at least for the definition of care that matters to most humans.
orangeboats 3 hours ago [-]
It sounds ridiculous to me that a hospital could be "for profit".
It is supposed to be a public infrastructure, folks!
BugsJustFindMe 3 hours ago [-]
Capitalists don't believe in silly things like public infrastructure that might make the world better for everyone instead of making the wealthiest people wealthier. Reducing profit to save lives is socialism.
Of course there will always be sound rationale: "Don't they deserve to profit? These services cost money, so who will pay for them? And who are you to judge, for how many lives have you saved today? Aren't you just jealous?" And so on, for the love of wallowing in societal decay, happy to turn a blind eye to the suffering because common experiences feel remote when they happen to someone else, and we forget the connection to our political choices when they happen to us too.
There's no money left to spend on health because the yachts and jets can't buy themselves yet. Your life and health and wellbeing have no value if someone else can't get rich from them. So, no, no infrastructure for public good, only hundreds of millions of dollars per day to bomb Iran to distract from the Epstein files. And haven't you seen? The stock market is flying high, which is basically just as good as taking care of the poor.
When you are a patient, you are not a person, you are an object of medical care. There is an algorithm, a schedule; the arrival of new doctors and nurses at each shift change. They meet and talk with each other about how their objects are doing, and then they'll check in on you with a formal hello, 30 seconds of conversation, and then they'll leave.
If a patient has signs of mental illness, the providers draw straws to see who has the unlucky job of: "talk to the patient, but gently remind them that they are an object on a medical assembly line and probably nothing is going to happen until the next doctor comes around".
I don't know if hospitals have always been this way, or if we just romanticized them in the old movies. But unless you have a specific problem that medical intervention can solve (e.g., a medicine or a procedure), you are effectively a nobody, and there is nobody there that cares about you - at least for the definition of care that matters to most humans.
It is supposed to be a public infrastructure, folks!
Of course there will always be sound rationale: "Don't they deserve to profit? These services cost money, so who will pay for them? And who are you to judge, for how many lives have you saved today? Aren't you just jealous?" And so on, for the love of wallowing in societal decay, happy to turn a blind eye to the suffering because common experiences feel remote when they happen to someone else, and we forget the connection to our political choices when they happen to us too.
There's no money left to spend on health because the yachts and jets can't buy themselves yet. Your life and health and wellbeing have no value if someone else can't get rich from them. So, no, no infrastructure for public good, only hundreds of millions of dollars per day to bomb Iran to distract from the Epstein files. And haven't you seen? The stock market is flying high, which is basically just as good as taking care of the poor.