“Doctors want to keep people sick” is like saying “chefs want to keep people hungry.” It is a pure fallacy. I don’t take anyone seriously who cannot understand such a simple concept (babies can understand this). - ThreadSky

ryanmarino.bsky.social • 131 days ago

“Doctors want to keep people sick” is like saying “chefs want to keep people hungry.” It is a pure fallacy. I don’t take anyone seriously who cannot understand such a simple concept (babies can understand this).

Reposted from Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD

I wish all the people who think physicians want people to stay sick could see how busy clinics and inpatient services are and how hard physicians have to work, often foregoing hydration, nutrition, and sleep, to keep up.

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catalina1016.bsky.social•131 days ago

and “teachers want to keep people dumb as a box of rocks so they can continue voting for orange fascists,” equally illogical.

solidarity5ever.bsky.social•131 days ago

It's such a smug conclusion. A way to pretend to be smarter than people who worked really hard to know about something. Often the root motivation to be a conspiracy theorist, a desire to be smarter, better than everyone else without the work.

kmahmood.bsky.social•131 days ago

PrEP enters the chat.

chrisdg.bsky.social•131 days ago

Hear hear

olivekosheluk.bsky.social•131 days ago

I had a doctor justify ignoring the dosage information from a drug manufacturer's product information leaflet because, according to her, "drug companies want to sell more drugs, so we can't trust their dosage guides"

sharonmacmillan.bsky.social•130 days ago

With so many doctors quitting, patients are starting to realize that their future healthcare security is NOT guaranteed.

Many women that I care for are asking if I’m retiring soon. They see MDs being replaced by midlevels, everywhere.
Soon, it will be a privilege, not a right.

scottmullin.bsky.social•131 days ago

Don't y'all personally pocket 100% of the money that's billed on my explanation of benefits???

grangrad.bsky.social•131 days ago

It’s just part of the grift code of play…🙄

karafin.bsky.social•131 days ago

i feel like people just see doctors being rushed and not having enough time for them, without realizing that we’re all victims of the same predatory system.

as-per-danielle.bsky.social•131 days ago

As a dental hygienist people would think everyone in dental was in it to make money off them, but if you tried to teach them things that would actually SAVE them money then you were “lecturing”

goaskalis.bsky.social•131 days ago

People just really hate flossing for some reason

rebelroscrey.bsky.social•131 days ago

it’s such a sensory nightmare for me but i force myself to do it because it’s a necessary evil

ryanmarino.bsky.social•131 days ago

The day we run out of illness, disease, aches & pains, no longer birth children, stop aging -just to cover some of my bases- then I guess I’ll be out of a job! But obviously doctors don’t “keep people sick.” (Would be illegal, too.) Even pharma wants to find the best solutions bc they’re worth more!

nwsoftwareguy.bsky.social•131 days ago

I think doctors do an amazing job more now than ever. I do however hate health insurance companies. Number one cause of bankruptcy in the US is health related issues. It's literally cheaper to fly out of country and get paid operations than use your own insurance, you pay for. That's not right.

peroy.bsky.social•131 days ago

My mother was in a nursing home, had a stroke and the dr. didn't transport her to the local hospital, and didn't call us. He gave her aspirin. My sister called me when she went to see her describing stroke symptoms. And I'm thinking, "why isn't a doctor talking to us? He & the nursing home got sued.

peroy.bsky.social•131 days ago

It was a major stroke and because of the delay, the window was missed to give the drug the could have helped. According to one of the employees, the doctor refused to transport her.

konstantybabelfisz.bsky.social•131 days ago

Pharma wants the most profitable solutions I'm afraid, not the most beneficiary ones. I read an article in the 90s/00s about engineered bacteria that outcompete the streptococci in our mouth, thus preventing tooth decay...

karmamylanta.bsky.social•131 days ago

Tbf, pharma execs have been quoted wondering if a drug that cured a disease was a good investment when drugs that require lifetime dosing were so lucrative.

cave-malum.bsky.social•131 days ago

IOW we won't need physicians when we are extinct.

margeatlarge.bsky.social•131 days ago

I'm wishing them all my kidney stone.

danada0109.bsky.social•131 days ago

I work at an academic medical center, doing comms for a primary care dept, and my physician colleagues work too damn hard for the benefit of their patients to be shat on like this, and this crap pisses me off every time I read it. They are dedicated and awesome, and this shit needs to stop.

arghavansallesmd.medsky.social•131 days ago

It makes me sad that this idea is so pervasive

goaskalis.bsky.social•131 days ago

People are just frustrated and bewildered by modern health care. They don't know who to blame but they know they go to the doctor and it's a pain in the ass and often doesn't seem to help with what they are concerned about

realitybased1.bsky.social•131 days ago

It is among the dumbest things anti-science idiots say.

atomicpopwi.bsky.social•131 days ago

Have you been to a molecular gastronomy restaurant? They're definitely not trying to fill you up! (Yes, point taken though)

mcmooney2017.bsky.social•130 days ago

I would do ANYTHING to cure Type 1 diabetes. To suggest we want our kids sick is just against everything medicine is about. I want everyone healthy.

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