I spent four years in medical school learning about 'non-compliance' and now I work in a clinic where half my patients cannot afford their medications and I feel like I was trained to blame them for being poor.
More people experience this than they realize.
You are experiencing cognitive dissonance between the individualistic framework of medical education and the structural realities that determine your patients' health outcomes.
“Where Are You with Healthcare equity and structural racism in medicine?”
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