Gummint 'tards

[Erhino]

Just to make sure that we're all on the same page here...
"'tards" is short for retards, correct?

Nothing gets by you. Iâ€ll bet you can pass this grueling examination.

"Understanding an individual's culture is essential to meeting their health care expectations
A. True
B. False.
The correct answer is false but they want me to answer true."

Not a doc, and didn't play one on tv. Heck, I never even watched MD shows. That said, why wouldn't understanding that patient is gay, in a drug culture, believes in voodoo, anti vac cause God's will be important? Knowing they live in the hood, don't drive and only have a corner stores to get food would help in diet planning.

I would think there needs to be understanding, not only to understand challenges they face, but a level of empathy as well.

[Hightop77]

Just to make sure that we're all on the same page here...
"'tards" is short for retards, correct?

Nothing gets by you. Iâ€ll bet you can pass this grueling examination.

"Understanding an individual's culture is essential to meeting their health care expectations
A. True
B. False.
The correct answer is false but they want me to answer true."

Not a doc, and didn't play one on tv. Heck, I never even watched MD shows. That said, why wouldn't understanding that patient is gay, in a drug culture, believes in voodoo, anti vac cause God's will be important? Knowing they live in the hood, don't drive and only have a corner stores to get food would help in diet planning.

I would think there needs to be understanding, not only to understand challenges they face, but a level of empathy as well.

But doesn't the Left also tell us stereotyping these groups is inappropriate?

[3rdgensooner]

Just to make sure that we're all on the same page here...
"'tards" is short for retards, correct?

Nothing gets by you. Iâ€ll bet you can pass this grueling examination.

"Understanding an individual's culture is essential to meeting their health care expectations
A. True
B. False.
The correct answer is false but they want me to answer true."

Not a doc, and didn't play one on tv. Heck, I never even watched MD shows. That said, why wouldn't understanding that patient is gay, in a drug culture, believes in voodoo, anti vac cause God's will be important? Knowing they live in the hood, don't drive and only have a corner stores to get food would help in diet planning.

I would think there needs to be understanding, not only to understand challenges they face, but a level of empathy as well.

Every single GD culture in the world is here. Every single one comes to see me. I'm smart enough to be a physician but I'm nowhere near smart enough to have a thorough understanding of every GD culture on the planet. What I do is respect their culture and try to understand my patients as people. The issue is the questions are simplistic to the point of being almost unbelievably moronic. But they were devised by the kinds of morons that become gummint bureaucrats. People are people. Every Hispanic person, every white person, every black person, every immigrant, every gay person is an individual and they don't fall into and conform to some set of stereotypes listed out for me by morons in gummint.
In one of the classes we were to learn about Hispanics. Idiocy on it's face as that is innumerable cultures and experiences. Even multiple races. As we were being advised to be aware Hispancis were very family oriented and we needed to be sensitive to that I had a question the useless waste of air holding the class couldn't answer. "What race or ethnic groups are there that aren't family oriented?".
I'm a professional. I went to medical school. I didn't go to gummint form filling out school. I don't need to spend time learning things that are obvious to anyone that can fog a mirror. IOW I want to do my job not spend hours and hours being spoon fed drivel by useless morons.
/rant.

[3rdgensooner]

Just to make sure that we're all on the same page here...
"'tards" is short for retards, correct?

Nothing gets by you. Iâ€ll bet you can pass this grueling examination.

"Understanding an individual's culture is essential to meeting their health care expectations
A. True
B. False.
The correct answer is false but they want me to answer true."

Not a doc, and didn't play one on tv. Heck, I never even watched MD shows. That said, why wouldn't understanding that patient is gay, in a drug culture, believes in voodoo, anti vac cause God's will be important? Knowing they live in the hood, don't drive and only have a corner stores to get food would help in diet planning.

I would think there needs to be understanding, not only to understand challenges they face, but a level of empathy as well.

But doesn't the Left also tell us stereotyping these groups is inappropriate?

This is basically what the classes and tests are. They tell us some simplistic stereotypical things about some broad heterogenous group of people as if A. we don't already know the simplistic stereotypes. B. It will actually have some application to an individual I may be caring for. 
They're that dumb.

[cincydawg]

Huh.

[3rdgensooner]

Huh.

I always appreciate your perspective.

[lrrps21]

My hat's off to you 3G, and all the others who can manage to stick around. I could not do it.

[cincydawg]

This stuff was around where I worked in the 2000s decade.  I've posted about the "training" before.  I reached a stage where I could simply ignore it all, and did.

We had these on line safety assessments we "had to do" also.  One COULD really tie a "facilitator" in knots about diversity but the best course was to do the silly games quickly and get out of there.  They would be in an off site location and we'd finish by 1:30 and go home.  Suite.