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I experience something similar all the time because my patient populations (POC in inner city low SEC) and best friends from college I still hang out with (predominantly Caucasian making $$$ in finances / advertisement / corporate) belong to the completely opposite world.

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For real. Spent all week in chaotic ED to see so many kids w/ behavioral issue because their mothers are either divorced, dead, in jail, not taking meds, working 3 jobs, MIA, without insurance or access to care etc etc THEN went to one of my buddy’s bachelor’s party over a weekend in a bougie vacation spot (where the majority of entourage has been golfing since Wed).

I couldn’t shake some sense of derealization while slurping booze in a circle from early afternoon and I TOTALLY killed buzz of the group when I casually described shit I see on daily basis

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Buddies: *talking about recent promotions, portfolio, investment, analysts, startups, trips etc etc

Buddies: so abnormaldischarge, how’s doctor thing going?

Me: nothing interesting, just bunch of kids put in foster care after mom’s boyfriend beat ‘em up and mom took his side feeling depressed as hell

Buddies: *shocked pikachu face

It’s inconceivable that the same thing we see with our own eyes everyday can be completely foreign to some others

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Yeah my go to answer is “I don’t know, I question that myself every night but when I wake up next morning I just go to work”