The problem is that doctors tend to lose empathy, well not just doctors, most professionals.
Your second point is spot on though. A doctor that suffered the disease or has seen it first hand will approach it differently.
The problem is that doctors tend to lose empathy, well not just doctors, most professionals.
Your second point is spot on though. A doctor that suffered the disease or has seen it first hand will approach it differently.
It is 100% irrelevant that a doctor “experience” a disease. They should have training / exposure to it though.
I constantly hear non-medical people talk about how “only female doctors understand because they’re women”. What crap.
The very same people when facing cancer magically don’t require a doctor who has had cancer. Suddenly they just want the most qualified.
The problem lies much more in over-specialization, rapid patient turn-around, patient demand that treatments be easy, pills, and yes, training in how patients (fe|male) communicate and feel pain, illness, etc