• @[email protected]
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    -246 days ago

    it’s really concerning you’ve worked for more than a decade in healthcare and you haven’t put 2 and 2 together. but I guess that’s just HCW privilege for you.

    I recommend Medical Apartheid by Harriet A. Washington

    • @[email protected]
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      136 days ago

      I saw a lot of injustice because I work in the US healthcare system. The company let old white people die just the same as anyone because they were on Medicaid; dude needed dialysis, and some goddamn bean counter decided that the costs after gas and crew wages didn’t pencil out. If you want to be a dick because I didn’t come to the conversation already seeing things your way, I guess that’s your right. I’ll make my way around to your source, but what I’ve seen, and I suppose what I am blinded to all other considerations by, is that our system of medicine is nothing short of direct class warfare. All other criticisms seem to arise as a direct consequence of that.

      • @[email protected]
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        -216 days ago

        western medicine was racist long before capitalism even existed. if you wanna take the class reductionist approach whenever apartheid is being brought up that’s your prerogative

        • @Duamerthrax
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          55 days ago

          What are you on about? Capitalism long predates anything that resembles modern medicine.

            • @Duamerthrax
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              45 days ago

              Then it’s a good thing that even if “western medicine” wasn’t anything more then a BS concept used by woo peddlers, it’s even newer then modern medicine.