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It's a thing everywhere that women are routinely told "it's anxiety / depression" etc, and aren't listened to. It takes years longer for women to receive diagnosis for anything. Advocate for the women in your life. Go to doctors appointments with them. Apparently if a man goes with them, they'll, more likely be listened to, team up with someone who won't take no for an answer. It's not just the car dealerships that women face issues, it's everywhere.
I can confirm this from first hand experience. The doctor's office I was seeing wouldn't answer my very basic questions, almost comically choosing to ignore or deflect me. I called my dad, he asked the same questions, and immediately got answered. I asked them why they wouldn't tell me that and they couldn't explain themselves. They gave me a halfhearted apology and I found a new doctor.
Similar story, my ex had health issues most of her life and her doctors kept missing what was going on, partially because they didn't believe her about some things. One doctor deciding to investigate instead of dismissing saved her life when he found out her birth control was killing her, though her gp at the time still wanted her to finish the course.
That same gp also didn't believe she was actually dislocating her limbs until she finally just did it in front of him and he changed his tune right away (though still didn't really help).
Later she had a new better gp as well as a good idea of what chronic issue she had, but he still resisted when she was pushing for a diagnosis. I just came along for one appointment and when he said something like "this isn't a clear sign that you have ", I asked what evidence was he considering that pointed at her not having it. He then admitted he didn't know much about the condition and would do some research. After doing some reading, he was quick to give her a referral to a clinic that specialized in the condition because apparently he needed to be asked about his reasoning from a man to even bother learning about the condition that matched her experience very well and that she was later diagnosed with a severe form of.
I think AIs will be great for diagnosis because they will be able to cut out the biases doctors have against ever suspecting a rare case or giving women any consideration deeper than "stress".
It's simpler to say that doctors are morons. And I mean that in a very real sense, I suspect that part of medical school is a lobotomy. Without fail, doctors have been some of the dimmest brutes humanity has to offer.
I agree but as a healthcare worker it’s across the board, if you’re a woman, a minority, a blue collar worker, a poor person, the Canadian heath industry has increasingly brushed all of our issues under the rug as they cut more and more from healthcare
Its not just canadian healthcare.
in America its much the same way.
Doctors are over worked, nurses are under staffed, no one wants to deal with anything that cant be diagnosed and solved in 2 minutes with a hastily written prescription. Even worse if you are poor, not white, have chronic issues, etc.
Last time I changed doctors (which was before covid), It took me 5 fucking years to find a doctor that would take me.. cause most of them wont even see potentially "problematic" patients.
While I can agree with much of what you said, in my experience - almost without fail - male doctors I've seen to diagnose my twice-blown ACL and rotator cuff have dismissed me outright ... often mumbling that girls can't hurt themselves that bad at work.
It's gd aggravating at best. At worst I did more damage to both my knee and shoulder because the Drs didn't give any time off work at the sawmill.
Oh I am not in any way saying sexism doesnt exist in medicine.
I am not a woman, but I have seen plenty how my female relatives were treated in ERs and just by their daily doctors, even by female doctors, to know that the sexism is just ingrained in the institution of medicine itself.
and no, that does not make it right, in case anyone tries to say i'm arguing in favor of sexism or something. Im just saying its not a one off thing, that its downright institutional and that even female doctors are grossly guilty of it.
as a side note, I feel gross for saying female, even when its directly appropriate term to use, because of how incels have poisoned the word. blegh.
It works for trans men too. If I go to the Urgent Care, I will get better care if I can remain stealth.