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Re:Shit Life Syndrome by ransackdev on Sunday August 20, 2023 @08:49AM (#37198620)
I don’t think it’s funny at all for a bunch of well off doctors, one of the most well treated classes of people, to use a condescending inside joke when their patients are literally unhealthy because of how poor they are. Aren’t doctors supposed to, you know, care? Yet they are making fun of those suffering in poverty, before heading to some banquet to rub elbows with other socialites and extremely wealthy people. We really are just awful creatures.
Re:Shit Life Syndrome by LVB on Sunday August 20, 2023 @09:03AM (#37198726)
Why do you think the SLS term is an inside joke? I actually appreciate the succinct directness of it tbh.
Re:Shit Life Syndrome by ransackdev on Sunday August 20, 2023 @10:03AM (#37199238)
It's unprofessional and degrading. I'm going to take a wild guess that the two replies to my comment are from people that don't know what it's like to have "shit life syndrome". Maybe I'm triggered because I've lived it and if I heard a doctor say that about me I'd knock them out
Re:Shit Life Syndrome by simonw on Sunday August 20, 2023 @10:00AM (#37199209)
English doctors don't really make banquet money: https://www.bmj.com/careers/article/the-complete-guide-to-nh...

I don't see this as a "making fun of people" thing. It feels to me more like an open acknowledgement that there are a large number of negative health impacts associated with poverty, and it really sucks.

Maybe there's a cultural thing here. English humor is pretty self-deprecating: the term "Shit Life Syndrome" is the kind of phrase that fits the English mindset pretty well.

Re:Shit Life Syndrome by ransackdev on Sunday August 20, 2023 @10:18AM (#37199368)
Ah so since they don't make banquet fund raiser money, my point about it being in poor taste and shitty for them to say about their patients is moot. Thanks for providing sources on Dr salaries. They are basically suffering from shit life syndrome themselves!
Re:Shit Life Syndrome by simonw on Sunday August 20, 2023 @10:21AM (#37199409)
The rest of my comment was meant to respond to your point.
Re:Shit Life Syndrome by sunir on Sunday August 20, 2023 @10:02AM (#37199224)
You don’t get it. It’s uncivil to police jokes.

Instead of starting with blame and condescension of your own, try to seek understanding from the people you accuse.

Every profession that is about caring for other people have these jokes because it is necessary to maintain some distance from human suffering to remain professionally functional. Humour makes it possible to maintain two dissonant thoughts in one’s head.

It’s in the very website linked here. The sense of powerlessness and malaise and desperation shared between the patients and their caregivers. What else does one do to come into work the next day and keep at working to improve a hopeless task?

Re:Shit Life Syndrome by ransackdev on Sunday August 20, 2023 @10:05AM (#37199269)
> It’s uncivil to police jokes

I 100% agree!

This isn't a joke, it's an insult.

Re:Shit Life Syndrome by sunir on Monday August 21, 2023 @09:01AM (#37208971)
You are projecting your own feelings. You need to seek understanding before casting judgment.

It’s absolutely not an insult. It is a lament.