[HN Gopher] Medical schools do not prepare students to care for ...
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       Medical schools do not prepare students to care for autistic or
       disabled people
        
       Author : wjb3
       Score  : 25 points
       Date   : 2023-12-24 21:07 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | egberts1 wrote:
       | Unless these medical students have some immersion exposure into
       | the physically-challenged (including Deaf) or mentally-challenged
       | communities, this trend of ignorance shall continue.
        
       | micromacrofoot wrote:
       | sometimes it feels like medical school doesn't even prepare
       | students to talk to people
        
         | LtWorf wrote:
         | In sweden they teach them to underestimate what people complain
         | about, and when in doubt send them home and if they come back
         | try to do something about it.
        
       | Podgajski wrote:
       | I've told doctors countless times the medication's they used to
       | treat my Asperger's and my bipolar disorder schizoaffective type,
       | make me ill weak and caused me pain. But they never listen to me.
       | So this is not even about people with serious mental handicaps.
       | They don't listen to patients in general. But that's true for
       | people with mental illness They think every pain or issue we have
       | is solely our heads.
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       | But I also recently had a friend mother who went to the doctor
       | because her ankles were swelling and she had some other issues.
       | They took a blood test and didn't tell her. Her kidney function
       | was with stage 3B kidney failure. It was two weeks until my
       | friend showed me the labs and I told her to go back and force him
       | to take more test.
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       | I don't know what's going on in medicine if this is something new
       | or is this something old but medical school shouldn't cost as
       | much as it does if they're putting out doctors like these.
        
       | Trasmatta wrote:
       | They also don't teach them how to care for people with Type 1
       | diabetes. There are so many horror stories about how awful
       | hospitalization is for T1Ds. So many doctors and nurses don't
       | understand the complexity of treating the disease, or respect the
       | patient's ability to treat it themselves while in the hospital.
       | Not to mention how common misdiagnoses are: I was diagnosed as
       | T2, when I was clearly T1. They didn't even do an antibody test,
       | all because I was an adult. So many people (including doctors)
       | still have the dangerous idea that T1D only manifests in kids.
       | 
       | I'm terrified of being hospitalized for that reason. I'll sign
       | whatever paperwork needed in order to self treat with my CGM and
       | pump. I've been doing this for 12 years, no doctor is going to be
       | about to do it better.
       | 
       | This also scares me in terms of inpatient mental health
       | facilities. They often don't even give you access to your own
       | insulin and testing supplies. Which is a recipe for feeling much
       | worse after leaving then entering.
        
       | ChrisMarshallNY wrote:
       | Also, substance abuse (including alcohol). I think they get about
       | two hours' training, in twelve years of school.
        
       | brcmthrowaway wrote:
       | Most people go into medicine because of the money and status
        
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