Health Management

A lot of posts have bee written on how doctors treat thei female patients. It reminded me of this:

I spoke to an acquaintance, whom I shall not name here. She told me that many years ago, when she went to her doctor to get on the pill, she took the mandatory pregnancy test and it came out positive. She'd had no idea. That meant she couldn't get that birth control.

Further examination had the doctor estimate that she was six weeks along. With this she disagreed. That was simply not possible, but the doctor insisted. She informed him that she hadn't had sex for at least 10 weeks.

To this the doctor said nothing more than "I'll send you to a scan and then you'll see that I'm right."

The scan obviously showed nothing of the sort, since, as we all know, getting pregnant takes some version of sexual intercourse. She was 16 weeks along, and when she called her doctor to talk about the results, he didn't want to talk about that at all.

And she kept him as a doctor because it's the only time he's been wrong - as she argued. Sure, the only time she KNOWS he was wrong, I pointed out to her. However, it doesn't really matter that he was wrong, what matters is that he was all snooty with her, letting her know that she couldn't possibly have any idea how far along she was, even though she knew better than anyone, when she'd been having sex and when she hadn't.

And what matters is that he refuses to talk about it when he's been proven wrong. That kind of immaturity is something I'd never want to see from my doctor.

What part of "I haven't had sex in at least 10 weeks" makes a person think that she could be 6 weeks along? Absolutely nothing, I betcha. But what could then have caused this doctor's attitude? I'd say arrogance.

As seen from posts cropping up here and there, some doctors here and there show an alarming tendency to think they know their patients' bodies better than the patients themselves - and especially so when it comes to women. And furthermore, when women speak of their behaviour, their actions and doings, they apparently cannot be trusted, because we all know that all women lie to their doctors about their habits, so that they can be sure they won't get the correct treatment.

The pregnancy resulted in a son, who's a teenager by now, so this all happened quite a while ago. But with all the more recent stories of the same ilk, it shows that pretty much nothin has changed in that department.

Yay... not!