Why didn't you say so?

[u/TheNectarineDiaries]

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

[u/Gambyt_7]

I’m in Italy sitting outside a little Amalfi area hospital. My wife just explained her recent injury and pain to two female NPs or doctors and she’s getting an X-ray right now.

We walked in eight minutes ago. We don’t speak Italian. They don’t care. She’s being treated.

Women’s pain is routinely dismissed in USA. A proctologist once failed to sedate her adequately and she was awake and feeling the whole fucking time. I wanted to take a baseball bat to his car.

Maybe it also has something to do with the total enshittification of American healthcare as a for profit industry.

[u/chimneyswallow → u/Gambyt_7]

Believe me, they do it here, too. One male murse called me dramatic and said after just looking at me not being able to move and just moaning in pain: Oh yes, she has a mild stomeach inflamation, she's just very sensitive." He continue to talk about me in third person as if I wasn't there. My ex bf was freaking out and was useless, but still he talked to him like a human. Of course he wasn't called dramatic. End of story: I had bile duct stones. And anyone who had them or gallbladder stones know they hurt like hell.