- To date, there is a prejudice that doctors are elderly people with gray hair, but in reality this is not the case because, as in any other profession, there are many young people.
- Conventionally, doctors talk about you both with their colleagues and with patients.
- Medicine is the longest career in the world and in the case of Mexico it takes between six and seven years just to complete the general training.
Work within the office must always be based on respect. It is a basic element that can never be missing in a consultation because it can turn a routine service into a nightmare. At the same time, there are aspects that can go unnoticed but must be analyzed and this was stated by one doctor through a complaint on her social networks.
All part of a feature that has been around for decades. It is about how a patient should be referred to his doctor and vice versa. In a traditional way everyone talks about you but it is something that has begun to change in recent years.
The origin may be in the image that is usually held of health professionals. Although it is a prejudice, there is a belief that doctors are always elderly people with gray hair, but this is not necessarily the case.
Contempt for doctors who are young?
As with any other profession, there are workers of all ages. Within the health field It is increasingly common to see millennial or Generation X doctors who stand out for their youth.
To return to the doctor who made the complaint, it is about the Dra Esmeralda, who is also known on social media as Esme Channel. She is an anesthesiologist from our country who constantly makes videos showing what a day at work is like. She also interacts with users and answers questions from her followers.
In one of his most recent videos, he took the opportunity to tell an anecdote. In her words, It is more and more common for patients to talk about you instead of you and mentions that everything is because they see you as young.
“Doctors should always be told about you out of respect”
Although it seems like something unimportant, he actually mentions that it is something that bothers him a lot. He adds that his training was quite extensive and it took him several years to get to where he is today. Therefore, the least he expects from patients is respectful treatment.
Likewise, she makes it clear that she He always talks about you to everyone who comes to consult or requires his services regardless of their age. With this in mind, he would like patients to have the same gesture.
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He also adds that something Even worse and more demeaning is when patients refer to the people who care for them as ladies and boys. “It is a total lack of respect because we are all doctors and doctors.”
The last thing he mentions reminds the movement #SoyDoctoraNoMiss that started the Dr. Ana Cecilia Jara Ettinger. It started last year and through social networks it showed the contempt that exists towards women in the field of health.
In her case, her idea stemmed from the prejudice that exists around the idea that only men can be doctors and only women can be nurses. Regardless of gender, all people can aspire to any type of profession.
And in your case, do you think the doctor’s complaint is valid and does it also make you angry that patients talk about you?
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