u/3RADICATE_THEM

Two things that have surprised me from that I've been thinking about recently:

1. Some people become LESS mature as they get older (not just referring to geriatrics letting facebook turn their mind to mush either but also referring to people our age to Xennials even).

2. The hardest part of trauma or a negative experience might not always be going through the very experience itself—but rather the processing and aftermath of it when you truly sit down and internalize what happened.

What do you think?

I know this sounds a bit of an overgeneralization and I promise I am not trying to deliberately push generation bashing narratives here—I just think when it comes to things like health that getting the highest quality care is of utmost importance over anything else.

With that being said, my god I’ve seen too many instances where a Boomer healthcare professional (ranging from physicians to NPs to counselors) are just unprofessional, have anti-scientific beliefs, or are just completely not up to date with the current medical literature and best practices.

First example I can cite was working with an NP for medication management for ADHD. She would routinely show up 30 minutes late for the Telehealth appointments (and this was apparently a standard practice of hers). Anyways, my local pharmacy was running on a backorder for my normal medication, so I suggested if I could try out Focalin. She ends up going on a long tirade on how it’s bad to be switching medications and how Focalin is only used to treat narcolepsy. While she’s going through her rambling, I go ahead and do a quick Google search to double check this on the site, and it literally says it’s primarily used to treat ADHD.

Second example is in relation to my mom working with her Boomer PCP. My mom was talking to my cousin (Millennial Anesthesiologist) about the problem she was experiencing, and my cousin recommended request a CT scan be performed. My mom goes to her PCP about this, and he basically says fuck that—we’re doing an X-ray. While it still is serviceable, my cousin was explaining to me how the CT scan is far superior in giving more detailed imaging to ultimately better diagnose and analyze the issue overall.

Third example was just recently working with a boomer therapist. In my intake with her, she basically insinuated that ADHD, anxiety, and other mental health issues were bullshit and far exaggerated. In another appointment, I wanted to share with her a few text messages I had with someone I was having issues with just to help contextualize the situation—reading the texts wouldn’t take anyone with basic literacy in English more than 30 seconds to read, but she refused to do so. She then spent the remaining 20 minutes effectively lecturing me on why cancelling appointments are bad.

There are a number of other examples I’ve seen that fit this overall theme, but these are the ones that come top of mind.

Overall, I think Millennial Physicians are the best, because they’ve gone through the most rigorous selection process (getting into medical school and placing into residency was far easier for Gen X and BBers), and they seem to be much more up to date on best practices for diagnosis and treatment. They also seem to be the least susceptible to pseudoscientific quackery.

If so, which episode?

Can't tell if I'm getting confused with another episode.

I've seen this tossed around a good bit here and there, but how actually accurate is it?

I assumed part of it was that he had vested interests in reelection, so it wasn't the right time for him to go quite full throttle.