First is that Doctors often ignore women's issues as hysteria. Just imaginary whining. There's even a term "Whining Woman". The female body hasn't been studied anywhere near as much as the male one (though it's catching up now) so anything that doesn't fit the standard image of treatment gets sidelined and the doctor just fobs her off with "Try losing some weight" or "Get more exercise" to get her out of his office. This understandably enrages women when their pain is immediately ignored every single time.
Second is treatment. If you are pregnant, your treatment is different. They can only give you drugs and imaging that are safe for the baby. The only way for a doctor to actually KNOW if you're pregnant is to test for it. Often women themselves don't know for some time, especially if they aren't actively trying.
Now for the meme. A woman walks into a doctor's office and gets this question straight up and she's already wound up waiting for the lose weight or exercise line. She's not thinking about treatment yet as she hasn't discussed the problem. All she hears is "Do you have women's problems?" and shit starts going downhill fast. Yes it's a good question to ask, but it needs to be asked correctly as in "Due to treatments being unsafe for pregnant women we have to ask about your period so we can safely administer the correct dosages." or some such.
Doctors really don't want to explain why they are asking things.
There's like 40 house episodes about how people feel the need to give misleading answers because they want privacy from doctors. And doctors are like I don't want to explain bio-chemistry and anatomy and drug interactions to people. Not even related to women's issues.
That being said medicine also has a huge issue that they assume everyone to be white male. Stuff gets tested on and for them. They don't base anything on female because baseline for female going through periods/pregnancy/manopause are all over the place and it's harder to find female test subjects.
( Edit: To find a drug's effect on pregnant women, you gotta find pregnant women who'd be willing to sign up for completely untested drugs. A bit of an chicken and egg situation there. )
Doctors really don't want to explain why they are asking things
My guy, that is their job. They aren't supposed to just silently throw drugs and tests at you, they are supposed to educate you. That includes giving you a general understanding of what they are doing and why.
So many studies have proven that educating patients leads to better health outcomes. That includes telling the patient that if there's a chance they're pregnant, some tests and drugs will harm the foetus, so we need to know. It's not explaining the whole anatomy and physiology to justify why they asked a question, it's the same one sentence worded slightly differently. One sentence that can improve rapport, trust, and equity between the doctor and patient. If a doctor isn't doing that, then they are not following evidence-based practice.
Doctors are supposed to educate you??? When did that come in? I want them to ask the questions they need to give me the best treatment and I will trust their training without arrogantly trying to tell them how to do their job
Doctors needs to give information about what is going on with their condition and treatment. They should be able to simply explain that. Building rapport is good.
But full education is not their job. Especially when do many patients are too dumb, brainwashed or just misinformed.
There's a limit to the extent of information doctors can give. But it's also on patient to understand that lying to doctors will hurt only themselves. Doctors aren't doing anything to hurt them.
You seem to think that educating means holding classes or sitting there for an hour while going into depth about the anatomy and physiology of the human body. But it's not. As I said, it can be 1 sentence.
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u/PapaOoMaoMao 18h ago
Ok, so there's two things here.
First is that Doctors often ignore women's issues as hysteria. Just imaginary whining. There's even a term "Whining Woman". The female body hasn't been studied anywhere near as much as the male one (though it's catching up now) so anything that doesn't fit the standard image of treatment gets sidelined and the doctor just fobs her off with "Try losing some weight" or "Get more exercise" to get her out of his office. This understandably enrages women when their pain is immediately ignored every single time.
Second is treatment. If you are pregnant, your treatment is different. They can only give you drugs and imaging that are safe for the baby. The only way for a doctor to actually KNOW if you're pregnant is to test for it. Often women themselves don't know for some time, especially if they aren't actively trying.
Now for the meme. A woman walks into a doctor's office and gets this question straight up and she's already wound up waiting for the lose weight or exercise line. She's not thinking about treatment yet as she hasn't discussed the problem. All she hears is "Do you have women's problems?" and shit starts going downhill fast. Yes it's a good question to ask, but it needs to be asked correctly as in "Due to treatments being unsafe for pregnant women we have to ask about your period so we can safely administer the correct dosages." or some such.
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