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‘Gaslit by doctors’: UK women with endometriosis told it is ‘all in their head’
(www.theguardian.com)
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In my experience, this is how a lot of (invariably male) doctors work. If you don't complain enough, they'll tell you to drink more water and take some paracetamol, ie. fuck off. So you end up having to exagerate your symptoms.
Or if you're a man, after going to doctor with a concern like you're told to and basically being mocked one time too often, you only go to the doctor when you're bleeding out of your eyeballs. At which point they mock you for not going to the doctor sooner.
On the other hand, a male doctor underestimating a female patients pain complaints, almost ended up killing my mother.
Mum: Doctor, I'm in excruciating pain. I think I have acute appendicitis.
Doctor: If it was appendicitis, you'd be in more pain.
Mum: few hours of pain Argh.
Doctor: it appears your appendicitis burst. You should have complained more.
Not invariably, you also get female doctors who will withhold care from female patients to punish them for the moral failing of being the wrong kind of woman. Like the one who told my sister "periods don't hurt that much, get over yourself" and refused to test for PCOS that she ended up having, or the one who told my wife when she was 15 "I'm not prescribing you birth control, you're not going to need it till you lose some weight anyway".