Self-Examination...Mandatory And Urgent In The Medical Profession

Being a member of such an esteemed profession comes with tremendous accountability and responsibility. These principles must be instilled in the minds of all who have earned degrees in all the various medical disciplines, including all subspecialties and specialties.
All hearts, minds, and souls of people who make their livings providing healthcare to others must be ever-so-mindful and cognizant of the dire importance and urgency of respecting all races, creeds, nationalities, and people of language diversities, socioeconomic statuses, and sexual orientation, and not let their personal prejudices dictate how they act, behave and conduct themselves in clinical settings and beyond.

The absolute vast majority of the people who live and work in medical environments of all types...regardless of whether they are clinics, hospitals, nursing homes, and other facilities that provide health care, are decent, honest people, I honestly believe.

However, there are some in the health profession that unfortunately stray and veer off the straight and narrow pathway of "doing no harm" and have chosen to conduct themselves in manners unbefitting, unprofessional and unwelcome in the medical community. These practitioners of medicine are easily recognized by others in the medical community, but unfortunately, not by the general community of people who are not affiliated with the medical community, but seek services from and are the recipients of care rendered by the above-mentioned healthcare providers.

It is alarming and utterly disturbing, but true that many who deliver health care and are practitioners of medicine actually turn their heads, "stuff their ears" and pretend not to hear, notice or see the unprofessionalism of those in the medical profession. Some of these practitioners of medicine even laugh at the indignities that are spouted out of the mouths of their associates, co-workers, and colleagues, and decide to just "go along to get along!" This type of behavior and conduct are tragic and most worrisome.

My suggestion to all who profess to deliver health care to the masses of people in our community locally, statewide, nationwide, and globally...Let us all examine ourselves and live lives exemplary of those who have been blessed with much and who have a tremendous duty to conduct ourselves responsibly and with the utmost decency and respect for all people.