• Icytrees@sh.itjust.works
    124·
    2 days ago

    I go to most of wife’s appointments

    Have you considered this could be the reason she gets asked if she’s pregnant?

    appointments

    As in, not an emergency. In an emergency the first imperative is to stop the immediate health threats, in this case the gunshot wound. The doctor doesn’t need to know about menstrual health do his ABCs.

    Also, as someone with extensive experience with Canadian healthcare, and I’ve held certifications up to OFA 3 (not a big deal, but it did qualify me to intubate, immobilize, take a health record, etc.) I’ve been to emergency rooms in four different provinces and I’ve been on enough different meds to fill a small pharmacy. At most I get asked if I could be pregnant, but that comes after my immediate conditions have been managed and we start discussing meds.

    I think either your wife has a shitty doctor, the doctor actually asks if she’s pregnant and you’re deliberately misquoting to support your argument, or she’s seeing her regular doctor for a checkup - where menstrual health is a reasonable thing to ask about and/or has a related medical condition regarding her period.

    And completely missing the point of the comic, which is about how the immediate health issue is being dismissed for the reasons I already stated.

    • plantfanatic@sh.itjust.works
      21·
      20 hours ago

      It’s funny that you need to result to insults to try and attempt to make your point. It’s a routine question and just because some doctors forget doesn’t mean you can ignore the other side of the fence with your rant.

      No doctor will ask if someone is pregnant, that’s inviting malpractice.

      I’m not missing the point of the comic, people are trying to point out the creator fucked ip by trying to address more than a single point, and fucked up the entire thing in the process.

      And completely missing the point of the comic, which is about how the immediate health issue is being dismissed for the reasons I already stated.

      Adding the benign routine question at the end changes the entire tone, unless you’re the one that incorrectly thinks this is a non-routine question and is only asked in places ruining reproductive rights, which IS NO THE CASE. As countless people have tried to explain I. This thread.

      • Icytrees@sh.itjust.works
        12·
        16 hours ago

        I am a woman who has been to the doctor. I get asked “Are you pregnant or breastfeeding,” all the goddamn time.

        Weird you think disagreement is an insult.

        Countless men who have never been a woman in a doctor’s office don’t get it. Lemmy is about 73% men. They’re missing the point for the same reason this comic exists, because women’s experiences are minimalized in healthcare.

        All the panels are related, that’s how a narrative works. A lack of media literacy doesn’t make it wrong, because women get it without needing an explanation. Unless the guys in the comments are actual doctors, they’re just a large volume of unsupported opinions. It is not routine to ask about a period in an emergency, the medical emergency is the context.

        Again, the comic isn’t about pregnancy, it’s about dismissing women’s pain and blaming problems on hormones.

        Source

        …women in pain are much more likely than men to receive prescriptions for sedatives, rather than pain medication, for their ailments. One study even showed women who received coronary bypass surgery were only half as likely to be prescribed painkillers, as compared to men who had undergone the same procedure.

        Another source

        Women are more likely to encounter scepticism regarding the severity or legitimacy of their symptoms as a result of gender biases and cultural norms ingrained in the medical discourse about women’s bodies and diseases over centuries.

        Yet another source

        Despite medical advancements, women frequently face underdiagnosis and inadequate treatment of pain (Pieretti et al., 2016). Healthcare providers often dismiss or minimize women’s pain, labeling it as “emotional” or “psychosomatic” rather than physical (Samulowitz et al., 2017).

        edit: You know, as a mod of a community, I can see all the votes there, right? I’m just glad you found a healthy outlet.