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French woman was told by doctors hantavirus symptoms were just anxiety
(www.theguardian.com)
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Sounds familiar.
"Bloody vomit and passing out with a 43° fever? Bitch your BMI is 33 what do you expect?"
If you'd actually read the article instead of jumping straight from the headline to the funny quip you thought of:
This doesn't sound like a discrimination thing; she literally described a cough that went away days ago and an anxiety she was feeling.
So out of curiosity because I shit on MAGA for this all the time. This is a special interest story trying to make us feel a certain way isn't it? It's not about statistics or facts. It's about a feeling. It's manipulative.
What is that message the author wants us to feel
They just want you to click so they can get paid. It's called clickbait. It isn't a special interest story.
My question is, what does that say about us? What is the message the author knew would work on us?
This is by definition a special interest story. It might as well be a story about an elderly women feeding ducks by the pond.
What? What are you referencing here?!?! That's beyond medical malpractice, holy crap...
It's a common stereotype (I can confirm anecdotally) that whenever a woman goes to the doctor for any reason, the doctor will do one or more of the following:
This happens a lot. I don't know the stats but it's happened enough times to women I know to actually cause them to avoid medical treatment.
ive heard it alot, especially if you are a poc, or black women they more than likely will go harder on those stereotypes.
No, I mean, I know that, but I was thinking they were referencing a specific case or something, because that sounded very extreme.
I was under the impression that high BMI was often used to dismiss health concerns regardless of gender, though; and that hysteria was soooo last century, but I guess not :C
According to a review I read, Scandinavian countries are better at this. Perchance we all move to Sweden.
I do believe 1. Is because everything changes as soon as a woman is pregnant and they have to stop doing any treatments that haven't been tested on pregnant women for liability issues. Doesn't really justify the others though.