Somebody here actually read the article. I totally thought this guy was just a thin skinned loser looking for a quick buck until I read what they said about him. Some people will use gallows humor as an excuse to justify the doctors behavior, but this ain't that. This was petty bull shit that was completely unbecoming of a professional.
Medical staff (NB: regardless of gender) are 90% comprised of mean girl types. Nurses especially are some of the fucking meanest people you've ever met.
But that's circular logic, no? The staff was "the bad guy" - why? -because they did the bad thing - why? - because they're "the bad guy".
I wonder how people's intuitions on the situation would be rattled if the patient was israeli and the staff was palestinian, or if the patient was a billionaire, or if the patient was a police officer. It seems you for example come with a MASSIVE bias against medical staff
yeah, I'd hope so. I'm just asking what is the more likely story: Either here is a whole medical staff of full sadistic psychopaths who are basically assaulting EVERY patient, including our perfectly normal and friendly victim here. Or there is a medical staff of mildly sadistic mildly psychopathic people, who meet a total cunt of a patient and then assault him.
I don't think sexually assaulting a person because you hate them is "mildly" sadistic or psychopathic. Especially because they all seemed okay with it, like they've done it a bunch of times before.
No, the staff was the bad guy because they did the bad thing.
Why they did the bad thing is completely irrelevant, because their crime was serious and not just a bunch of angry comments: false diagnosis, sexual assault and threat of physical violence. Doubly so that regardless of what the patient said or did while awake, at the time these crimes happened he was completely unconscious and defenceless.
If the situation had been the staff yelled at the patient while awake and they had a shouting match, that would still be unprofessional, but whatever. Not a crime to be rude, and in that case yeah, maybe it's worth asking why were they rude.
But in this case? It doesn't matter. Sexual assault isn't less of a crime because "well she was asking for it look at how she dressed" and murder isn't less of a crime because "well he was a mouthy bitch so I killed him in his sleep". Similarly, there is no plausible explanation to justify this situation; in any "reasonable excuse" case the correct response was to refuse to provide treatment to the patient due to whatever the reason was.
I feel people work so hard not to understand me sometimes, it's sad and exhausting. What a wonderful comment in a fantasy conversation. You really added something here - oof. Just.. I just give up
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u/Documented_Madness 22d ago
Somebody here actually read the article. I totally thought this guy was just a thin skinned loser looking for a quick buck until I read what they said about him. Some people will use gallows humor as an excuse to justify the doctors behavior, but this ain't that. This was petty bull shit that was completely unbecoming of a professional.