That’s not “pointing and laughing”. No one is laughing that this kid died in its meconium. No one thinks it’s funny to encourage women to risk infant mortality for the sake of “natural” experience. There is massive privilege being granted here towards people behaving abominably.
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My patients who are literally shot by other people enjoy less sympathy than privileged women that negligently kill their offspring. That’s America.
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I’ve been told not to assume the patient in this case enjoys such privilege, but the natural/organic/wellness/antivvaxx cult is absolutely a product of the kind of privileged notion of purity for a price, written about so eloquently by
@AlanLevinovitz https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/goop-teaches-us-we-can-be-pure--if-we-spend-enough-money/2020/01/16/22f8114e-37c1-11ea-bf30-ad313e4ec754_story.html …Show this thread
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That article was so strange to me. I can understand someone having negative experiences with doctors and believing crap as a result. But those groups sound so, so, stupid. A midwolf? They get medicine wrong AND turn "nature" into something from a Disney movie.
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Can these not both be true? Do you ever consider that the tone you use in these conversations is perpetuating the trust problem?
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The doctors as well who traumatised her? The fact is doctor misconduct is a leading reason why vulnerable anxious people are at risk from the hogwash self appointed lifestyle "gurus" flog.
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I see that as a separate but valid issue. Government should treat the alt med nonsense as the dangerous fraud it is, AND professional organizations need to take misconduct complaints more seriously & quit circling the wagons.
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I literally avoided certain doctors for a decade after an appallingly abusive experience. Addressing the way women, especially multiply marginalised women are often mistreated in medical settings is also part of addressing this scourge.
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To clarify: I see it as a separate causative factor. Not the same thing as literal fraudsters ripping people off. Yes, bad doctors can and do alienate people, and if predatory alt med schemers didn't exist, people wouldn't turn to folk remedies in nearly the same numbers.
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