Doctors, nurses, et cetera are just flesh mechanics. Are they knowledgeable in their fields? Sure. But I’ve met enough anti-vaxxer nurses to know damned well quite a few of them are dumber than shit. Meanwhile some of the most well read and thoughtful people I’ve known have been truckers and the like folks with relatively low level jobs that allows hours of listening. Seriously I once met a trucker whos go to audio noise was university lectures uploaded on YouTube.
It’s the way healthcare functions that makes a lot of them (not all) this way. When you spend all day seeing how the place you work, which is supposed to be for healing people, bend it’s mission for profit, it can break your trust in the system. In some ways it can just be the nature of the work itself.
My brother worked as an orderly for a decade. After seeing the completely scooped clean thoracic cavity of an 18 year old organ doner (she ODed) he never really got over how she was just Meat for harvesting. I don’t even think he realizes how different he’s been since he had that job.
Doctors, nurses, et cetera are just flesh mechanics. Are they knowledgeable in their fields? Sure. But I’ve met enough anti-vaxxer nurses to know damned well quite a few of them are dumber than shit. Meanwhile some of the most well read and thoughtful people I’ve known have been truckers and the like folks with relatively low level jobs that allows hours of listening. Seriously I once met a trucker whos go to audio noise was university lectures uploaded on YouTube.
It’s the way healthcare functions that makes a lot of them (not all) this way. When you spend all day seeing how the place you work, which is supposed to be for healing people, bend it’s mission for profit, it can break your trust in the system. In some ways it can just be the nature of the work itself.
My brother worked as an orderly for a decade. After seeing the completely scooped clean thoracic cavity of an 18 year old organ doner (she ODed) he never really got over how she was just Meat for harvesting. I don’t even think he realizes how different he’s been since he had that job.