I almost died of amoeba hystolytica in Bolivia 20 years ago because of medics saying bullshit like this: "You are just not used to our diet!"
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well i guess that means we should either remove it or get wasted in the comments on horse paste?
doctors from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control and the Spanish foreign health service assessed the French woman and dismissed her symptoms as anxiety or stress
Somehow, this doesn't engender confidence in the ability of these entities to provide accurate assessments moving forward into what could potentially be a larger outbreak.
"That guy coughing up a lung look okay to you, Clef?"
"Mmm? Oh ... yeah. Just a little stress, I'd imagine. Have you seen the price of petrol lately?"
Statistically likely they would treat a man more seriously though. Women are far too often dismissed with anxiety or just dismissed altogether.
In the US perhaps, over here we are proud to dismiss anyone with anxiety regardless of gender, women in particular get instead dismissed with period cramps or potential pregnancies! /s
"We have the best dismissal rates. I know all about dismissing women. Nobody knows more about dismissing women than me. Women come up to me all the time, tears in their eyes. 'Mr President, you raped me when I was 13'. I just call them a bitch, and dismiss them. And when you're famous, you can do it! Believe me. Believe me".
(It's so hideous some of that was based on actual events).
You're being hysterical, dear. Maybe it's that time of the month? I recommend Epsom salts and bromide. Sorry, I'll explain again to the head of the house.
Fine. Here’s my credit card. Now can you just relax?
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:
Why? Because what she was telling [them] was [that she had] an episode of coughing some days ago that had disappeared, and what she was having at that moment was kind of like stress or anxiety or nervousness. So it was not catalogued [as hantavirus],” [Spanish health minister] Padilla said.
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.
“Bloody vomit and passing out with a 43° fever? Bitch youe BMI is 33 what do you expect?”
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.
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.
ive heard it alot, especially if you are a poc, or black women they more than likely will go harder on those stereotypes.
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.
This wouldn't' be the first time medical misogyny was fatal.
When professional medicine was new, a doctor (male) was about three or four times more likely to kill a pregnant person or their infant than the midwife (female), who knew about washing her hands. The AMA was a pioneer in early American anti-abortion activism. Not for moral objection, just to discredit midwives and clever-women who dominated reproductive care at that time.
I agree with the medical misogyny part but the hand washing nurses part is incorrect AFAIK. They weren't washing their hands either but the doctors were working on cadavers and so more riddled with nasty bacteria.
Women giving birth in the street had higher survival rates than either of the two hospitals in question which is fucking wild.
Half arsed history does a really great episode on it. Episode 91. Highly recommended.
Even after Semmelweis forced everyone to wash their hands and proved how life saving it was, he got enormous pushback for the notion that doctors could be killing their patients. Arrogance costing lives.
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