• @ef9357@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Let’s state the truth. Doctors do NOT care about women one bit, unless said woman is actively pregnant. And then it is ONLY to ensure the baby is ok. Otherwise I’ve yet to meet a doctor (male or female - doesn’t matter) who fines one damn about women.

    ETA to add that doctors need to be told to give women pain relief is proof.

    • Phoenixz
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      62 days ago

      Yeah, that opinion is rather over the top. You’re surely right when saying that doctors need to be more aware of issues that women might face, doctors should be more aware that female bodies work different and as such respond differently to medication, these are known issues

      But to claim that they simply don’t care is simply not true. I’m sorry if you had bad experiences with doctors but this is not the normal

    • @chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world
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      163 days ago

      That’s extreme. If doctors don’t care then why did they become doctors? Why go through all of medical school and residency with years of lost sleep and exhaustion to become a doctor? Why not become a lawyer instead? High end corporate lawyers make far more money than even the highest paid doctors.

    • @Nollij@sopuli.xyz
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      -13 days ago

      That’s way too broad of a statement, and one that I would question is true in even a small minority of cases. You’re thinking of Republicans.

      As for the quality of care, there are many systemic issues with women’s health. Since this is a procedure that is exclusive to women’s anatomy, we can confidently exclude factors like women being excluded from the trials.

      There is, however, a very simple explanation: Medical staff cannot sympathize with a pain they’ve never experienced. Men have no personal experience with the anatomy/physiology involved, on any level. We cannot truly understand how a vagina feels, nor any of the other parts. The best we can do is infer based on our own parts and experiences. The same is true in reverse.

      But what about the women involved? They have the parts, but maybe not the experience. If they have never had an IUD, or the pain described in the article, they must also infer from their own experiences.

      • 𝕱𝖎𝖗𝖊𝖜𝖎𝖙𝖈𝖍
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        That’s way too broad of a statement, and one that I would question is true in even a small minority of cases. You’re thinking of Republicans.

        While it’s true that Republicans would get off to a video of someone stomping a kitten, it goes beyond that. Men never take women’s health issues seriously. That’s why I exclusively seek out women doctors.

      • @Zenith@lemm.ee
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        You seem to not understand that empathy actually does work even if you’ve never personally experienced something… maybe you don’t have empathy if you think this is how everyone else works because you apparently can only learn from or extrapolate from your own experience and you figure if you can’t do it no one can. Beyond that why would you assume none of the medical staff are women?