Many doctors are wonderful. The ones I have a problem with are the ones who look at me with my complicated history and tell me I’m lying about the pain and trying to get drugs, conveniently ignoring that I told them at the beginning of the appointment that I don’t want or need drugs because I’m working with a pain…
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What a ridiculous thing to say. If a two ton safe fell on your leg and crushed it would they tell you to get over it because the pain is similar to labor and you’d be prepared? Who the hell wants to be prepared for the pain of labor by having extra pain? That reminds me of that old joke: what do you all the person…
To be fair, the academy basically DOES hate women.
Signed,
Someone with a PhD who is also a woman
However, funding is how to solve this (you are right). Maybe before I hit menopause in 20 years, they will have a treatment.
At the same time, most doctors (most of which were WOMEN) have made fun of/ignored/refused to care…
Men discovered the clittoris in 2009 so...
(The first article describing the full extent of female erectile tissue that I can find in an academic journal was publish in ‘09)
You’re the first person I’ve come across that has adenomyosis too! I didn’t even know it existed until I finally got a hysterectomy at 40. For a decade, I described my pain to doctors as feeling like small animals were clawing my insides. The two GPs I’ve had over that time were both horrified and sent me to OBGYNs…
As recently as the late 70s/early 80s I was in the car with my mother when we heard a report on the radio saying that doctors had proven that menstrual pain was real. We stared at each other in disbelief. Yes indeed, the majority of women through the majority of time, recorded and unrecorded (I think it’s safe to…
All of my doctors have access to the same chart. Which includes notes and other important things from the visit. Like medication changes. So if I were to be pregnant it would say so on my medical chart. If it’s an outside provider, they ask to see your medical chart. You have to sign a medical release paper (which is…
The warning on prescriptions says to discuss the med with your doctor if you are pregnant. If I were pregnant and my doctor wrote me a prescription and that label were on it, I would hope it had already been determined that it was more beneficial than risky for me, and not that I need to call my doctor again to…
I saw this earlier and on top of being hilarious I also fully expect that this will end up being super accurate when the reboot premieres.
Wow. They’re using the opioid epidemic as another way to attack women’s bodily autonomy. Never let a good crisis go to waste, huh?
Seems to me that a physician who fails to ask that a patient if they are pregnant might be eligible for a malpractice suit, or, at the very least, sanctions from the state medical association.
Does no one remember Michael Sam? Dude didn’t actually play in a game, but he was drafted and kissed his boyfriend on live tv when it happened. Has everyone just agreed that he wasn’t part of the NFL so someone else could be the first openly gay man to pay? Is he being whitewashed?
I don’t disagree about what you would like to see being appropriate, but she wasn’t saying anything in those DMs that she did not also say publicly, one of the tweets actually was, “my Friday fantasy: you. dirt nap. mmm baby.”The DMs were maybe more direct but Teigen was publicly telling them to kill themselves.She…
Agreed. If an attempt is being made, stand aside and let them make it.
I’ve never been a big fan of hers, and she absolutely deserved to have her comeuppance, because the things she said were horrible.
Well, “you” is the second-person singular, but it’s also the second-person plural unless you want her to switch over to “youse guys”. Which I’m in favor of, but it’s pretty unlikely.
Oh, the bookshelves. Almost part of the narrative itself. Do the books change over time? Are they matching colors? Are there knick knacks? If so, are they well organized? Then you’d see the rare commentator with bookshelf habits like the rest of us -- unmatched colors, books horizontally on top of books, coffee…
I mean, you seem pretty easily bothered, so surely you get it.
I think it's pretty reasonable to expect that someone isn't going to try to get you to sing "Sweet Caroline" so they can make a public proposal for Twitter.
It seems way less cool once you consider that all those extras are the main characters in their own lives. Like, the table next to your theatrical proposal might be a family who is eating a silent meal after watching a loved one pass away in hospice.