New Research this week >

[whitefeather]

UCSF doctor - "I am afraid of Long Covid " >

McGill University / the genetics of immunity >

 

[KuriGohan&Kamehameha]

Not necessarily related to this and I am kinda in evil mode rn, but it's a twisted kind of irony that many doctors have treated people with post viral-ilnesses/CFS like shit for years, now they get to experience firsthand what they were mocking their patients over. Poetic justice.

Though, if you browse any medicine forums like r/medicine or studentdoctorforums you will still see many of them calling people with chronic fatigue, long covid, CFS, etc lazy hypochondriacs or emotional, histrionic housewives. Until it happens to them, of course.

It is really hard for me to have sympathy for doctors and higher ups in the medical establishment in general when historically they have treated people with illnesses they can't understand like shit, and they only seem to see the light if they get struck down with the thing they've rolled their eyes at for decades.

It really blows that these people get to be the gatekeepers of what is seen as real, scary, and dehabilitating. Millions of people have had these symptoms for decades, and suffered unnecessarily, because doctors never believed us, and beuocratic healthcare "professionals" get to decide what is valid, rather than the patients with lived experience.