Read Deez Thoughts.........

I'm an avid reader of the Student Doctor network (www.studentdoctor.net) forums and came across a rather disturbing post from a medical student talking about how he was going to cancel his membership with AMSA (American Medical Student Association) because of their socialist views about healthcare in America. Now as some of you may know, the U. S. has one of the most advanced healthcare systems in the world. However, this system is plagued by so much bureaucracy, that many people end up not getting the health care they need because:
1. they're aren't insured
2. there aren't any hospitals or ambulatory care facilities that can provide care for them (a big problem in rural and urban areas that are socio-economically disadvantaged).
This guy says that it's not the government's responsibility to pay for people who are uninsured and that he feels that AMSA is trying to push towards socialized medicine which would be a great detriment to society.

Now I both agree and disagree with this statement. First of all, as humans, we have basic rights and one of them to have access to adequate healthcare. We are all going to get sick at one point in our lives, so if a person gets sick through no fault of his/her own and so happens to also be uninsured, healthcare should be provided for them. Now, on the flip side, if someone just sits and just doesn't give a damn about their life and just continues to put themselves in jeopardy of injury or sickness and just so happens to also be uninsured, then no, they should be held accountable for the charges they incur for treatment. I guess the problem I'm having with this person that posted this message is that he was almost sounding like, he wouldn't treat a person who was uninsured. Now as an aspiring doctor, I find this type of attitude shitty at best. As a doctor your job is to treat people regardless of what their situation is. As a Black woman aspiring to be a doctor, I find this type of attitude reminiscent of the attitude whites took towards treating Blacks. I'm not a big fan of some white folks, but if a KKK member came across my table and I had to treat him I would, because that's my job.

I've heard some really bad reviews on socialized medicine, but I still believe it is the only way to insure that everybody gets access to healthcare. A lot of people don't realize how valuable health insurance is until you are without it. Right now I don't have health insurance, but fortunately my child does. I think about the good that socialized medicine could do for men, women, and children in poor and rural areas who currently don't have a damn thing. For those screaming, but I have Medicaid, take note, they've cut the benefits to the point that in a few years, you won't have shit but a card and that's it. It's too many fucking doctors out there who take this holier than thou attitude when it comes to treating uninsured and underinsured individuals. All I have to say to that is a warm and wholehearted FUCK YOU! Those same people that you're treating like shit are the same ones who enabled you to get those damn subsidized loans to pay for school to become a doctor. Now for all of those people out there saying, but the poor people don't have federal taxes taken, excuse the fuck out of me. When I was making 4.15 an hour working at Chick Fil-A many eons ago, there were taxes being taken. It may not have been much, but when you think about it, 4.15 an hour ain't shit grossed, so imagine it taxed and then you're really left with shit. For the poor doctors out there who want to treat people who are uninsured really can't because of this high ass malpractice insurance that's forcing doctors to go into early retirement with thousands of dollars worth of school debt hanging over their heads. I support making doctors pay for their mistakes, but for those doctors who are being sued because Sally's butt enlargement didn't make her move to a size 0 panty to a size 2 went wrong or a man who was diagnosed with prostate cancer and refused treatment and their happy go-lucky relatives that didn't give a damn to care for him while he sick all of a sudden want to sue, then hell naw doctors shouldn't be held responsible.

Healthcare in a America sucks and when I become a doctor I'm going to lobby for changes. Too often people just do enough to get by, but don't give a damn to take that extra step to make a change. I'm not trying to be a doctor just to hear people call me doctor or for the money ( because most doctors don't break even until they reach retirement). I want to become a doctor because I want to take care of people, especially my own. There are too many of us dying from preventable shit because we don't know what it is and because some of us just don't give a damn. I'm going to make it my mission to make sure they're educated and receive treatment. I know I sound like an idealist, but in a perfect world, there wouldn't be a need for an idealist because shit would be perfect and we wouldn't even need doctors(duh!), but since we do, I might as well try to be the best one I can.

I would like to give props to my cousin Monica for pursuing her Player hater Degree in Public Health and my cousin Christy for working towards her RN degree. Thanks for helping to make a difference in people's lives.

Hopefully, I'll be in somebody's medical school class of 2012 (I'm really leaning towards Morehouse :D)

Anyway, that's my shit for today. Until the next time............