I get really upset when EM docs are unapologetically bigoted, especially against the disadvantaged patients that we take care of more than anyone else. If you don’t care for helping people in pain or sickness or with nowhere else to turn, GTFO of emergency medicine.

If you think the secret to a happy career in EM is to judge people for their poverty, their chronic medical conditions, their mental health, or their race/religion/gender/origin/etc, then I doubt that you and I can have a productive dialogue. I will fight for my patients.

I can’t imagine these docs applied to medical school with a personal statement that read “Poor people with chronic medical conditions brought it on themselves and I don’t care about helping them.” So how did they get in? And how can we help much more deserving folks get trained??

I know docs have a wide spread of political views, and I don’t agree with many of them. But *this* issue is not and should not be political. If you don’t care about your patients, find a different career path. There are unfortunately so many for you. But stay out of EM.