I couldn’t care less what my Dr looks like as long as they’re experienced and have proper credentials. I disagree with the entire premise of this article. Should there be no male gynaecologists?

I will say that when I had doctors who looked like me, they almost always treated me like shit (for example, an emergency room physician practically assaulted me while performing an arterial blood draw because he didn’t like that I was pushing back against his dismissing my medical complaints).

Conversely, most of the doctors that did not look like me treated me very well and listened when I needed to discuss whatever health issue concerned me.

All of this to say that while it would be nice to see more people from underrepresented backgrounds enter professions such as medicine at the physician level, patients who look like their providers are not automatically going to be treated better. It will always be about who is a good human and practices good medicine, regardless of their background.

Patients are racist and genderist, can medicine accommodate them?

I’ve got a doctor who is almost exactly like me in every way and I feel like my comments/concerns are brushed aside and ignored, that’s just doctors in general.

“Doctors who look like me” is the biggest bullshit I have heard. I want doctors who are best qualified, competent, and perhaps most importantly - compassionate. I don’t give a shit if my doctor looks like SpongeBob or Bojack Horseman.

Diversity for diversity’s sake is an empty phrase. Diversity for the sake of finding the best and brightest, that is the faith I am searching for.