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1/ I have a thoughts about this thread critique of #DoctorsAreDickheads and to lesser extent some of the other criticisms I've seen or heard about it.
Thread ahead. It's gonna be a long one so buckle up or mute accordingly.
2/ First - etymology of the hashtag (as I understand it). @stevieboebi posted a video about how after years of misdiagnosis, dismissiveness and all the all too familiar to many of us experiences with doctors, she finally got a dx. (Note no
3/ At the very end of a *12 minute* video she makes a statement of support to people who have had or are having similar experiences struggling to get diagnosed and treatment. Doctors are dickheads were three words in a TWELVE MINUTE video.
4/ In response someone (not sure if they are a doctor or med student or what) said they are "personally offended" by those three words (and apparently missed entire point of video). @stevieboebi replied.
5/ At some point @crippledscholar tweeted.
Thread ahead. It's gonna be a long one so buckle up or mute accordingly.
If the goal is for doctors to do better, let\u2019s use a hashtag that communicates an emphatic request for change - e.g. #DoBetterDoctors - rather than a proclamation of the inherent awfulness of doctors. 12/
— Kimberly Acquaviva \U0001f3f3\ufe0f\u200d\U0001f308 (@kimacquaviva) October 25, 2018
2/ First - etymology of the hashtag (as I understand it). @stevieboebi posted a video about how after years of misdiagnosis, dismissiveness and all the all too familiar to many of us experiences with doctors, she finally got a dx. (Note no
NEW VIDEO!
— Stevie \U0001f52e (@stevieboebi) October 22, 2018
My biggest secret: I\u2019m disabled. https://t.co/PnrxUI9hxp pic.twitter.com/mgHEGbb1Qr
3/ At the very end of a *12 minute* video she makes a statement of support to people who have had or are having similar experiences struggling to get diagnosed and treatment. Doctors are dickheads were three words in a TWELVE MINUTE video.
4/ In response someone (not sure if they are a doctor or med student or what) said they are "personally offended" by those three words (and apparently missed entire point of video). @stevieboebi replied.
YEAH WELL SORRY FOR YOU but we are told to trust doctors fully and that HURTS PEOPLE because doctors have biases and they are wrong just like the rest of us humans. And me learning that helped me tell my doctors off and demand to be treated differently and led to my diagnosis.
— Stevie \U0001f52e (@stevieboebi) October 22, 2018
5/ At some point @crippledscholar tweeted.
I kinda want to see #DoctorsAreDickheads trending with stories of medical gaslighting and abusehttps://t.co/YO5vRtth8h
— Kim Sauder (@crippledscholar) October 23, 2018