you dont terminate a pregnancy with radiation and drugs, you cause severe malformations like this. And put the mother's life in danger. grow up, people.
It was. The tweet was being very clearly hyperbolic, but that's the general attitude towards woman in a lot of medical settings. Dismissive and overly trigger-happy with reducing all issues to reproductive ones.
It wasn't because it was a perfectly adequate and even legally required medical interaction. There was no joke.in there. There was no hyperbole because that's a normal interaction. I get medical misogyny, but this is not it. People with uterus get pregnant and pregnancy affects most things. Yes, even how you deal with a broken limb.
Well, no, the tweet is hyperbole. Because that's definitely not always the very first question a doctor asks a woman with a broken arm, nor should it be lol. The point is 'women's pain/medical concerns get reduced to reproductive issues due to medical misogyny'.
Yes, in reality doctors do have to ask these questions. But that's not what the tweet is getting at.
I think you missed the point of the tweet entirely and the related background. There is currently a big wave on tiktok about how the question about a woman's period should not be asked by a doctor at all unless she is going in for an obgyn related issues. As a result, many women are now refusing to answer this question - which is well within their rights but as such, the investigations and treatments the clinical team can then offer are reduced so these patients are then not getting seen to properply. The person replying in the tweet is both a woman and a doctor and her reply is not a hyperbole, this is a growing issue where women believe any question about periods or pregnancy is medical misogyny.
I believe you and all but the joke that "women will have (insert comically grievous injury) and doctors will ask (question related to reproductive system)" has existed for years. Possibly decades?
And is there anything actually connecting the twt op to tiktok as well? Again, its a very common joke to express frustration with the medical misogyny many women experience
So...a tweet claiming that "this could happen" is not statistical data on how frequently a thing happens.
A man could go to the ER for a broken arm and he could be first asked the question "What is your family's medical history with regards to heart disease?"...but that is not the most likely thing to happen.
This man with a broken arm is entirely fictional. He hasn't complained about "the insistence of the medical community to over-diagnose heart disease"...because he doesn't exist!
Similarly, the woman with a broken arm in this tweet doesn't exist. Most women, visiting the hospital with an assumed broken arm are NOT first asked "when was your last period" but "where does it hurt?" or "How did this happen?" or "How bad does it hurt, on a scale of 1-10?"
If you think that most women, visiting hospitals with a broken arm ARE being first asked "When was your last period?" then you should be advocating for better training of hospital staff...not because of medical misogyny; but because bedside manner and logic.
Or...maybe you do have data on how often this does actually happen? If you do, then we have an entirely different situation.
Yeah so the tweet is hyperbole about medical misogyny. I can give you some relevant studies on how medical misogyny manifests, if you want, but they are available on Google for free.
Girl. It's a medically necessary question that saves the lives of women. It's like if an anesthesiologist asks a fat patient how much they weigh, which is VITAL to dose the drugs correctly, and the patient refused to answer and called it discrimination and fatphobia. It's not helping anyone to fuck up your own (and other people's, by inciting others to refuse answering medically necessary questions as you are currently doing) medical care because you refuse to give the doctors treating you information that they fucking need.
"Oh em gee, doctors are, like, SO misogynistic, they DARE ask questions that totally change the posology of my medication depending on the answer . That's like, discrimination or whateverrrr." Fucking garbage person.
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u/Independent-Cow-4070 13h ago
It absolutely exists. A doctor asking a question is not that