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By the lovely Grace Farris.
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No way. My doctor is thinking, how quickly can I move on to the next person, and I have no idea what the issue is and I don’t really care to find a cause or solution because hormones be crazy. Medical misogyny is alive and well!, while women are suffering and even dying.
Even my woman doctor waves me and my “uterus issues” away.
Right this moment I have finished watching The Pitt with my daughter Alma. She loved this :)
I am also mom to an Alma!
I worked with a nurse Alma in the 80s and 90s. She was lovely.
I love it! Could this be a new serie? Love from Paris
As a urogynecologist also co-sign this and would add “did she feel heard and understood?”
Fellow urogyn here and fully agree!
ER/palliative care doctor. Co-sign!
My doctor was thinking (and saying lol) “it’s Coxsackie………
Most definitely NOT cock sucker…..”
I love him.
As a pediatrician, I co-sign this!
Cannot tell you what a relief it is to not see:
-this person isn’t ill, they’re just crazy, or
-this person’s [insert body part] is the weirdest/grossest I’ve ever seen
Cause those are what I’m always afraid they’re thinking!
Trust me – it’s never the grossest thing we’ve ever seen. I had a patient (that I knew well) tell me his legs were gross recently, and I genuinely laughed and said they weren’t even the grossest thing I’d seen that DAY!
So true!
Alma *is* a pretty name! (Though I am biased as my hilarious and intrepid niece Alma is turning 8yo on Monday! 🎉)
Lol this post should come with a trigger warning. Ever since entering my 40s and having to advocate for myself with EVERY DOCTOR I encounter, going to appointments has become EXHAUSTING. Why does every doctor think they know my body better than I do?
I winced a bit when my reaction to this was, I WISH this was what the doctors think when I am at an appointment, because nearly every moment feels like an eye roll or sigh is right on the edge of the conversations–most recently being told “that is just life” when I expressed concern about weight gain and other perimenopause symptoms. no wonder so many people turn to completely bonkers pseudo-science when it is so freaking hard to get docs to take you and your concerns seriously.
I am with you both! The number of people I know who have been gaslit by doctors – just to find they have cancer… Thing is, they’re ALWAYS women. The doctors who do it are any gender, but the patients are always women.
Oh yes! To be fair, the caption is what your doctor « might » be thinking. Mine was and is assuredly thinking none of those things. Sure enough, the symptoms that were all in my head turned out to be two different types of cancer.
THIS. I very recently went to the doctor after a bad fall where I had a concussion and a very screwed up shoulder and was all over very banged up and he barely looked at me and was more focused on telling me I was being ‘overly anxious about the injury’ because nothing was broken and concussions ‘resolve on their own’ he suggested i talk to a therapist (I already do and will surely be bitching about him). Also in general I feel like most doctors are so busy trying to chart while they ask questions and barely look at you it’s impossible for them to be any help at all. I know there are exceptions, but fuck, I have yet to find any.
Exactly this. It took me EIGHT YEARS of being told I have anxiety—or maybe I was just chronically dehydrated (??)—before I was finally diagnosed with an autoimmune disease. I know that doctors are overburdened and I’m so grateful for the ones who do care, but wow, the gaslighting is next level.
Accurate!
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