Social determinants of health belong in medical school

Summary: When a TV Show Teaches More Medicine Than Med School

An exhausted TV doctor in scrubs staring blankly at a massive, unpaid hospital bill. Hit shows like The Pitt are showing the real ER: uninsured patients, medical gaslighting, and people rationing insulin.

A group of angry men in suits slamming a giant red "CENSORED" stamp onto a heavy medical textbook. Meanwhile, medical schools just dropped the requirement to teach doctors about how poverty and bias actually affect your health.

The same TV doctor shrugging at the camera while holding a television remote and a bucket of popcorn. When treating the whole patient is labeled "woke ideology," we guess we'll just get our medical degrees from television.

Binge-watching is the new medical residency.

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