Anonymous
Post 05/17/2026 07:16     Subject: When a doctor discriminates
Anonymous wrote:A colleague of mine in the same medical system

Which system? Are you in DC, MD or VA?
Anonymous
Post 05/17/2026 07:13     Subject: When a doctor discriminates
Anonymous wrote:Medically, I can't think of any situation where the word immigrant makes sense. A person's ethnicity matters in terms of disease risk and predisposition to certain gene variants. Where a person lived for most of their lives also matters, in terms of exposure to carcinogenics/pollutants and disease.

But doctors usually write, for example: South East Asian (Vietnam), exposed to Agent Orange as a child. THAT is a highly pertinent sentence, since you have the ethnic category and the mutagen that is Agent Orange.

"Immigrant" is a loaded word and there is no medically-sound reason to use it.


This is crazy-it is absolutely an appropriate part of social history even absent something like agent orange exposure.
Anonymous
Post 05/17/2026 06:57     Subject: When a doctor discriminates
You must be a really stupid doctor if you don’t think this information is medically relevant.
Anonymous
Post 05/17/2026 06:56     Subject: When a doctor discriminates
Are you a physician?
Anonymous
Post 05/17/2026 06:55     Subject: When a doctor discriminates
Anonymous wrote:A colleague of mine in the same medical system labeled a patient as “immigrant” from a X city in X country. I think he’s crossed the line. Would you say something?


Where's the discrimination though? Was the patient treated differently? Charged more, made to wait longer?
Anonymous
Post 05/17/2026 00:09     Subject: When a doctor discriminates
Anonymous wrote:Medically, I can't think of any situation where the word immigrant makes sense. A person's ethnicity matters in terms of disease risk and predisposition to certain gene variants. Where a person lived for most of their lives also matters, in terms of exposure to carcinogenics/pollutants and disease.

But doctors usually write, for example: South East Asian (Vietnam), exposed to Agent Orange as a child. THAT is a highly pertinent sentence, since you have the ethnic category and the mutagen that is Agent Orange.

"Immigrant" is a loaded word and there is no medically-sound reason to use it.
'

Really? you can't? I can. An immigrant didn't grow up here. They were not on the US vaccination schedule and had a lot of different exposures - maybe malaria, parasites, etc. Seems extremely relevant healthwise.
Anonymous
Post 05/16/2026 20:33     Subject: When a doctor discriminates
The fact someone is an immigrant changes all assumptions about their entire health, nutritional and vaccine history
Anonymous
Post 05/16/2026 18:18     Subject: When a doctor discriminates
No
Anonymous
Post 05/15/2026 20:25     Subject: When a doctor discriminates
Medically, I can't think of any situation where the word immigrant makes sense. A person's ethnicity matters in terms of disease risk and predisposition to certain gene variants. Where a person lived for most of their lives also matters, in terms of exposure to carcinogenics/pollutants and disease.

But doctors usually write, for example: South East Asian (Vietnam), exposed to Agent Orange as a child. THAT is a highly pertinent sentence, since you have the ethnic category and the mutagen that is Agent Orange.

"Immigrant" is a loaded word and there is no medically-sound reason to use it.
Anonymous
Post 05/15/2026 20:15     Subject: When a doctor discriminates
Troll
Anonymous
Post 05/15/2026 20:12     Subject: When a doctor discriminates
It can potentially be relevant when considering disease exposure and/or vaccine history
Anonymous
Post 05/15/2026 20:12     Subject: When a doctor discriminates
Make more sense
Anonymous
Post 05/15/2026 20:11     Subject: When a doctor discriminates
What? No, it’s not discrimination to note pertinent medical info on a medical record. Troll harder.
Anonymous
Post 05/15/2026 20:10     Subject: When a doctor discriminates
Labeled where? How?
Anonymous
Post 05/15/2026 20:09     Subject: When a doctor discriminates
A colleague of mine in the same medical system labeled a patient as “immigrant” from a X city in X country. I think he’s crossed the line. Would you say something?