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Are these gonna be like Soviet doctors who didn’t know how to read EKGs?

• matheusmoreira 3y ago
  It's very likely. The "soviet doctor" thing you mentioned is just so amusing to me. I'm brazilian, our current president is a literal communist who fancies himself the creator of a south american soviet union, he has a populist "doctors for the poor" policy which essentially consists of flooding the market with doctors via huge numbers of shitty medical schools that don't even have a hospital for the students to practice in, he's directly quoted as saying things like "we must create a new generation of leftist doctors who accept working for less"... And now there are doctors who do not know how to identify a possible myocardial infarction on an EKG. There are doctors out there who cannot spot an ST segment elevation or depression on an EKG. Hell I've seen one doctor send a patient presenting with classic myocardial infarction symptoms home with pain meds without even running a simple, cheap, fast, non-invasive and universally available EKG. I wish I was making this up, my own goddamn lawyer made an example of this last idiot because obviously the patient died and it's just impossible to defend that conduct. I'm actually afraid of being sick and not having trusted doctors to care for me. But of course my comment above describing this terrible situation was flagged. Welp. People here would be horrified if I described the literal quackery and charlatanism I see in this country on a daily basis. Blow smoke up people's ass tier stuff and I mean that literally. Worst part is those doctors make metric fucktons of money while the good ones are hated because they don't swindle patients with easy solutions that don't actually work.