I have to go to my spouse’s appointment and verify everything she says or the doc just assumes she’s exaggerating to get meds. I originally thought she just had bad luck with docs, but it’s like watching the medical degree drain out of their ears! She’s the most dead pan, dry delivery I know, she only plays down her problems, she has experience in the field so documentation of symptoms is something she understands, and even the women docs look at here like she’s asking for a cast on a splinter.
It’s insane, isn’t it? Especially when it comes from a fellow woman.
I had a pre-syncope and could barely get out of bed for a week and a half. When I told my doctor I’m worried about it reoccurring because I don’t know the cause of it, she just smiled and said that’s something that would be hard to diagnose and that I shouldn’t live in fear. And I’m like ??? Your job is literally to diagnose. I also have a few chronic illnesses, so I tend to feel up and down. She straight up told me it’s just anxiety and I should be grateful I don’t have any serious illnesses.
Unfortunately, she’s not the only one like that. Just recently I had a doctor tell me such nonsense that’s debunked with a 2 second internet search that I questioned whether he got his license off Temu.
Too many misogynists and narcissists in the field.
she has experience in the field so documentation of symptoms is something she understands
This jumped out to me as a possible contributor to the distrust. Speaking with that level of familiarity is probably something they see much more often from people experienced in lying/exaggerating to get meds, than from people in the industry, simply because the former group has a lot more people in it overall.
I have to go to my spouse’s appointment and verify everything she says or the doc just assumes she’s exaggerating to get meds. I originally thought she just had bad luck with docs, but it’s like watching the medical degree drain out of their ears! She’s the most dead pan, dry delivery I know, she only plays down her problems, she has experience in the field so documentation of symptoms is something she understands, and even the women docs look at here like she’s asking for a cast on a splinter.
It’s insane, isn’t it? Especially when it comes from a fellow woman.
I had a pre-syncope and could barely get out of bed for a week and a half. When I told my doctor I’m worried about it reoccurring because I don’t know the cause of it, she just smiled and said that’s something that would be hard to diagnose and that I shouldn’t live in fear. And I’m like ??? Your job is literally to diagnose. I also have a few chronic illnesses, so I tend to feel up and down. She straight up told me it’s just anxiety and I should be grateful I don’t have any serious illnesses.
Unfortunately, she’s not the only one like that. Just recently I had a doctor tell me such nonsense that’s debunked with a 2 second internet search that I questioned whether he got his license off Temu.
Too many misogynists and narcissists in the field.
This jumped out to me as a possible contributor to the distrust. Speaking with that level of familiarity is probably something they see much more often from people experienced in lying/exaggerating to get meds, than from people in the industry, simply because the former group has a lot more people in it overall.