I am an atheist, but I am summoning any and all deities or demiurges to visit a disease upon you, hopefully chronic, hopefully painful, hopefully trivially easy to treat, that you have this knowledge, and that every doctor will simply shrug and ignore you.
This seems to be the only way people learn. It is unfortunate.
Been there done that. How do you think I learnt to self advocate properly?
I don’t blame the doctors. They did their best in the time and with the information available to them. I didn’t fit the mould so they missed it again and again.
I could have done with the right treatment 20 years earlier, but I got there.
You might also be male, having health issues while being female seems to have a side effect of not being treated properly much more often. But that’s anecdotal, because I don’t want to search for statistics
Women definitely have it harder. I’ve seen statistics that back that up too.
Women have more variance in their health, mostly linked to their hormonal cycle. That drastically widens the range of ‘normal’ for them as a group. An individual patient might be highly abnormal for herself, but within the bounds of ‘average normal’. A good doctor, with time will account for that. Unfortunately most lack the time.
The fact that doctors are traditionally male doesn’t help. Add in a few women overreacting to feed the stereotypes and we end up with the current situation.
It seems to be improving slowly, based on what I’ve seen, but it’s still got a long way to go.
I am an atheist, but I am summoning any and all deities or demiurges to visit a disease upon you, hopefully chronic, hopefully painful, hopefully trivially easy to treat, that you have this knowledge, and that every doctor will simply shrug and ignore you.
This seems to be the only way people learn. It is unfortunate.
Been there done that. How do you think I learnt to self advocate properly?
I don’t blame the doctors. They did their best in the time and with the information available to them. I didn’t fit the mould so they missed it again and again.
I could have done with the right treatment 20 years earlier, but I got there.
You might also be male, having health issues while being female seems to have a side effect of not being treated properly much more often. But that’s anecdotal, because I don’t want to search for statistics
Women definitely have it harder. I’ve seen statistics that back that up too.
Women have more variance in their health, mostly linked to their hormonal cycle. That drastically widens the range of ‘normal’ for them as a group. An individual patient might be highly abnormal for herself, but within the bounds of ‘average normal’. A good doctor, with time will account for that. Unfortunately most lack the time.
The fact that doctors are traditionally male doesn’t help. Add in a few women overreacting to feed the stereotypes and we end up with the current situation.
It seems to be improving slowly, based on what I’ve seen, but it’s still got a long way to go.