BloogerGAN-Personal

Heard of it? Well it’s in the news. I could have taken it “with a grain of salt” according to a colleague, but I guess I won’t.

I am a Doctor and a Graduate of FEU-Dr. Nicanor Reyes Medical Foundation and I am proud of it. I have read lots of reaction from forums (local) and I am insulted by the fact that non-doctors are reacting in a cold way.

I may not be a “big deal” locally, but how about those working in the US? How will they feel with this latest racial slur. I don’t agree to take this sitting down, I have to defend my colleagues, who like me, worked their asses off just to graduate and finish med school. It’s easy for non-doctors to say, come on, it’s a joke. But it’s not easy for a doctor to just take it a stride.

The relationship that exists between a patient and a doctor is bounded by trust. There are things that a patient will tell a doctor or there are things that a doctor will ask his/her patient that is beyond “normal” conversations. Heck, there are even information that a patient will not tell his/her family that he/she will tell a doctor. But if this relationship is strained with doubt then, the relationship becomes futile.

Good thing, had we not “whine” then ABC could not have heard that what their writers have done are offensive and racist. Had we just kept quite, their writers will think that they’ve gotten away with something that they can do again next time.

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