2026-05-12 12:35 UTC
@proscience@toot.community @skinnylatte@hachyderm.io Doctors are very low down on the accountability chain in the practice of medicine. This is like firing shop workers for implementing an asinine corporate policy. When med school stops churning out doctors who behave in this fashion, then we can start smacking offenders; but until then, we need to look at the actual causes of this behaviour, and address those. Individual punishment is but one tool, and rarely the most effective one.
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@wizzwizz4@fosstodon.org 2026-05-12 12:40
@proscience@toot.community @skinnylatte@hachyderm.io That is not to say that doctors should not be doing better: they absolutely should. They have a lot more power, a lot more discretion, than they seem to think they have, and they are in many cases willingly participating in an abusive system. But that very system is what you are calling upon to take action against this doctor. That's hardly what I would call accountability: it would be another case of the powerful shifting the blame in order to avoid accountability.