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Can anyone relate?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not only autism. Show me a doctor who really listens to a patient and I show you a man running to that doctor.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

My primary and gender surgeons listened to me, but others I think are burned out. I saw Drs, nurses, therapists not listening to me and others and it reminded me of myself when I was in a help desk job for almost 4 years. Like you know 90% of the problems are solved with quick solutions and some assholes are so at the slightest disagreement with how you are fixing the issue you label the customer/patient as an idiot. I had to be humbled by a newbie to see I was jaded. I still try to remember that while I'm not helpdesk anymore, I'm still helping internal teams migrate to docker.