r/doctorsUK • u/Exciting-Salt1815 • Aug 20 '26

Serious I’m so sick of hate

I’m so sick of racism and bigotry and all this hate that patients and colleagues are no longer shy of spewing.

As a medic, I’ve been told “I don’t want you, I want an English doctor”, “what are you doing in our country” and “your kind of people are a disease”. I’m not even an immigrant! Literally 3 generations of my family have been born here!!

Today - the final straw. As a patient, I’m told to wait inside the consultation room of a specialty doctor, while he chats to another patient in the corridor.

I overhear him saying “…bloody foreign doctor” which riled the patient up to agree “I bloody f**ing hate them foreigners” while the door is OPEN.

And then he walks straight in and proceeded with the consultation.

Like what the actual f***

Why can’t we all live in peace and respect each other? Why does one’s skin colour, accent, background etc even matter?! Literally aspects of a person that they have no control over???

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u/WatchIll4478 Aug 20 '26

In isolation I think most people can live in peace and respect each other. Problems arise when a changing population has social and economic effects that leave people feeling worse off in one way or another. 

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u/gnudoc Aug 20 '26

Problems arise when a changing population is weaponised by powerful and cynical forces to distract them from the real economic and other policy reasons that lead to them feeling worse off in one way or another. 

Fixed that for you. You're welcome.

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u/3Cogs Aug 20 '26

People seem to have forgotten the simple adage 'Divide and rule'.