Medical repression in the US
• Repression typically refers to the active suppression of a group’s freedoms, rights, or desires. It often involves force or coercion to prevent people from expressing themselves, achieving their goals, or challenging the status quo. • For example, a government might repress political dissent through censorship or violence, or a society might repress certain groups through laws and policies that limit their opportunities or freedoms. Repression is a mechanism often used in systems of oppression , where marginalized groups are deliberately kept from advancing or achieving equality. It can be both overt (e.g., violent crackdowns) and covert (e.g., institutional policies that create barriers). Today, my family has suffered from our local doctors scheduling visits at least a month and a half out from the date we schedule our appointment. This side effect of this is that the problems we go to the see the doctors about only get worse and worse. Is this problem found across the ...
