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porphyrin ([personal profile] porphyrin) wrote2005-07-22 01:20 pm

Sadness.

Look, I realise I don't have to clicky thingy on any links, okay?

And that I did, and that I found someone ranting against all doctors, the medical profession as a whole, and making blanket statements that all doctors are shits who want to rape you up the ass just to get more money shouldn't hurt me.

But it does.

I work very hard to be as good a physician as I can be. I work at it every day. I study every day. I bust my gonads to be a good physician.

Comments about how you hate all doctors are not appreciated by me, a doctor.

I realise I shouldn't have clicked the clicky thingy on someone's rant about medicine.

Regardless.

If you're likely to put up posts like that on a usual basis, about how all doctors suck, and how we're all out to get you, please drop me a line. I can unfriend you and go about my day without crying for 15 minutes and then having a terrible 'whopped in the stomach' feeling for the rest of the day.

ETA: I'm actually okay with 'my doctor sucks and here's why'. Honest. Just not blanket statements that all physicians suck and are out to get you.

It would be like me saying, "I hate all writers, because they're all pretentious."


Alternatively, if I see a lot of 'all doctors suck' blanket statements made, you may get unfriended anyway.

[identity profile] matastas.livejournal.com 2005-07-23 03:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Statements declaring 'all doctors suck' have about as much merit as statements deifying all doctors. That is to say, none at all (though the former gets you riled vs. validated). Reacting to them is pointless, because they probably aren't aimed at you. For instance, that'd be like me getting bent out of shape at someone yelling 'all engineers are socially inept and doomed to be single' when it's widely known and heralded that I'm a pimp.

At your most indulgant, you look at such statements to find out where the source of the frustation stems. Otherwise, ignore 'em.

And while I'm somewhat late to the party and this appears resolved, realize that Ranter has the utmost personal respect for you. Trust me on this one.

You're almost there, baby. Keep your chin up.