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So what would be the solution?So yeah, it’s a problem.
Here’s more confirmation. Not that most women need it.
So what would be the solution?
I know that this is starting to sound like a broken record (you remember ‘records’, right? Round things, sounds? Usually black?) but this stuff just seems to find me. I don’t google it, I don’t hunt it down, it just …. appears ….
So what would be the solution?
More than a dozen medical schools now recommend or require that applicants submit their PREview test scores with their Medical College Admission Test scores.
When you're an m.e. patient and make, you basically become an honorary woman.I know that this is starting to sound like a broken record (you remember ‘records’, right? Round things, sounds? Usually black?) but this stuff just seems to find me. I don’t google it, I don’t hunt it down, it just …. appears ….
One of the things that I went thru with Drs when I was trying to get a diagnosis for what turned out, a little over 2 years and 5 doctors later, to be cancer, was their absolute inability to respond to my claims of extraordinary pain in my lower back. Just crippling. Not like the back pain I’d had since a spinal surgery, which was more or less intermittent and bad, but not bad-bad. The pain I was trying to get them to register and respond to was almost blinding I its searing intensity. Nada. The skeptical look at me over their glasses, like “Yeah, right.”
So yeah, it’s a problem.
Here’s more confirmation. Not that most women need it.
Why Women's Pain Isn't Taken as Seriously as Men's
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/why-womens-pain-isnt-taken-143900049.html
“Although women are more likely to suffer from chronic pain, studies indicate that stereotypes play into how women are treated in the exam room, and that can affect our care. In one study, when medical students and clinicians saw videos of patients in chronic pain, they estimated women’s pain, on average, as lower than men’s — and were more likely to recommend psychological treatment to women and analgesics to men.”
Read on ..... there's a lot more where that came from ....
I also think medicine, or traditional medicine is underpinned by a default non cooperative, unempathethic " rock stars" t the top type thing. They cant be questioned.Lots of education for medical professionals on unconscious bias and lots of guidance for women to advocate strongly for themselves?
you basically become an honorary woman.
In fact , in some ways I'd say you're actively despised if you're a man. You should " man up".
Yeh it's like some hazing system.I can see the system doing all that, too.
Do men even utter the words: "it hurts"? The symptoms of ME are particularly unacceptable - low energy, poor sleep, lots of pain and digestive issues.
The whole system includes all this indoctrinating. Everybody is affected by it.
Example: not sleeping. Somehow, you want to train doctors by running them through multiple shifts and include not sleeping. This is then somehow admired. And then its some special club you've been initiated in.
I'd prefer to visit doctors who are well rested.
This surgeon saved my husbands life. ON the wall is the sign: Cut and Cure.
So when they cannot cut it out, Good Luck.
It's called 'internship'. And it's ridiculous, one of those things passed down from days gone by in the spirit of "I had to endure it, so by God, you do, too."Yeh it's like some hazing system.
I've posted so often and so volubly on my general opinions of our medical system and its practitioners that, while I have multiple thoughts on your excellent post, I need to find a new way to express them.There's arrogance, greed, ego. Nothing to do with care.
Generally speaking, I've found that surgeons, particularly orthopedic surgeons, are the only medical practitioners left who focus on the problem at hand, put some effort into understanding and studying it before cutting, and then go to work in an efficient, unemotional, way.This surgeon saved my husbands life. ON the wall is the sign: Cut and Cure.