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How does everyone deal with skepticism of science based healthcare? Not sure if that's the right phrase, but its the only way I can think of describing it. My mom was just talking to me about a naturalist doctor claiming that there was an assassination attempt against them and honestly I don't even know where to start.
I get where some of the skepticism comes from considering the long history of white society using POC as their guinea pigs for medical advancements. And the fact that in the West, especially in the US, healthcare is more about profit than it is about actually helping people doesn't help. At the same time I feel like people take the skepticism too far and no matter what I've tried to say in the past about individual healthcare providers not being the problem, but rather the system that encourages profit over health people still fall back on their skepticism.
There was like a survey done that found a find number of nurses and doctors that believed that black people have higher pain tolerance than white people
I remember that or a similar study.
Shit sucks because it feels like there's no in between. Just full on dehumanization on one end and dangerous misinformation in the other. Like I myself have some of that skeptcisim, especially when it come to mental health, but its grounded in history and studies such as the one that you mentioned.
CW// racism referenced
my friends all think im crazy for being afraid of doctors. hate alternative medicine more tho
Most of my family is the opposite. Big on natural and alternative medicine. Nothing wrong with that, but the way they completely disregard everything else is a bit bothersome.
I'm most comfortable talking to my mom about it, but when I talk about all the systemic issues around healthcare she just goes back to blaming individuals and talking the type of shit that I hear from right wingers. But IDK... Maybe I shouldn't let it bother me as much as it does.
I mean its pretty reasonable to be at least a bit bothered