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"Especially you sluts over there!"

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Shawn Renee Ernoehazy's avatar

I work in mental health and all of our psychiatrists are immigrants or the children of immigrants. They are excellent doctors and view the input of the therapists as valuable in the treatment of the whole person. When I worked in the "physical" medicine field, I was mostly fortunate to work with doctors (non-immigrant) who valued the input of all the staff as helpful, but I had experienced many with "god-complex" who did not welcome any input from staff. For the most part, the ER docs (mostly middle-aged white men) at first view my mental health license as "less-than" until I start using their language and being assertive (not aggressive) in case presentation for either requesting a psych med or discharging a patient. As a woman, and a lowly Master's level practitioner of a specialty they often dismiss, I have won some level of respect. The immigrant psych docs seem to automatically respect our role in the care of the whole person, some even ask our admin staff, transportation staff, and even food service staff for input on what they observe! No way the usual white guy doc does that on the regular! Psych docs also are one of the lowest paid of specialties.

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