Why didn't you say so?

[u/TheNectarineDiaries]

Best medical advice I ever got was to bring a man to your appointments

[u/AdCurrent7674]

The one time I went to urgent care for a chronic UTI without my husband that had the chart projected on the screen. I was describing the symptoms I was having. The nurse froze at “foul smelling urine”. I repeated foul smelling urine. The nurse looks at me and says “I don’t want to put that because it sounds bad” and made a gesture like I should be embarrassed.

I said “Sir I work in healthcare that’s is the proper term put it in the chart.” (I am a microbiologist)

This was then followed by my urine test coming back negative. I fought the doctor hard. I told them to send it for culture. We went back and forth. I told them I knew what a UTI smelled like and I could even tell them what bacteria was growing.

I finally convinced them when I forced the doctor to look in my chart and she that I had a history of UTIs that would grow in culture but not flag on the over the counter test.

I honestly don’t get why I had to fight so hard, I am the one paying to have it sent for culture anyways. It came back with E coil just like I told them it would

[u/Exciting-Mountain396 → u/AdCurrent7674]

Being told your symptoms are too unladylike for your chart, good grief.

[u/KayD12364 → u/AdCurrent7674]

What is the point of a chart if they dont look at it

[u/AdCurrent7674 → u/KayD12364]

Exactly 😅

[u/Aquatic_Rainbow → u/AdCurrent7674]

“I don’t want to put that there because that sounds bad”

Foul smelling urine has to be one of the better symptoms urgent care workers get 😭 how the hell are you going to be a nurse and so grossed out about smelly pee that you don’t even want to write it down in the patient’s chart?

[u/AdCurrent7674 → u/Aquatic_Rainbow]

I was like sir, why do you think I am here??? It is bad… that’s the point

[u/Aquatic_Rainbow → u/AdCurrent7674]

Exactly!!! Where else and who else do you tell about nasty symptoms to get them treated?? Imagine being so judgmental you forget you’re there to help people with unconventional medical problems, not just scoff at them for developing said problems like a human does

I’m really sorry that happened to you

[u/AdCurrent7674 → u/Aquatic_Rainbow]

He had been flirting before that. It felt objectifying. It was like he wasn’t letting me be sick because it would ruin how he saw me.

[u/siberpup2077 → u/AdCurrent7674]

That's awful. In a weird way though, it's almost reassuring that a professional like you was also dismissed. It confirms that it really isn't anything other than misogyny.

[u/AdCurrent7674 → u/siberpup2077]

Yeah like a month later I went in with my husband who was sick, his flu test came back negative and he had been sick for longer than 48 hr and they gave him medicine just incase it was the flu. “It probably won’t help but it won’t hurt, better to be safe.”

[u/siberpup2077 → u/AdCurrent7674]

I'm so sorry 💜 it's extremely unfair