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Greetings friends, and welcome to another Saturday. Congratulations on making it through another week. If you have been reading my diaries over the last several weeks, you probably know that lately, I have about had it up to my eyebrows, with the way so called medical professionals treat me, and those like me. I have been accused of not listening, when I told a doctor that his strategy of treatment seemed counter intuitive. I have told after two days worth of prep that I could not have the procedure I was prepping for, because… the so called professionals were, “uncomfortable transferring me from my chair. I, and more recently, Mom, have been treated as if we were drug seeking, simply because we were working to find the best ways to keep functioning.
I often think that its just, isolated events… but I cannot think that any more, not after reading the article that I will link below. The problem is.. that Doctors do not see us, people with disabilities, as people. Most of them see us as problems to be solved. They see our disabilities as flaws, and their training fosters a frame of mind that so often leaves them treating their disabled patients with what in any other arena would be seen as a level of disrespect that would be seen as criminal. The problem is, that they are not trained to treat us, their disabled patents, as people. Instead, they see our disabilities not as a natural part of us, and of our lives, but as pathologies, just like the other diseases and conditions that they treat. This leads to people like me, often avoiding medical care until it is too late. A trend that will continue, until doctors are trained, and encouraged through whatever means available, to treat -all- of their patients with more respect.
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