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Do you know the history of the diagnosis of “Hysteria”? snaps.akibraun.com/11z8r.png Women’s pain was never taken seriously. It still isn’t.Permalink On twitter.com
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Just because the formal diagnosis went away doesn’t mean the attitude toward women never did. Ask any woman with a chronic illness.Permalink On twitter.com
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Actually, ask me! I recently went to urgent care because my resting heart rate was dangerously high for several days straight.Permalink On twitter.com
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At urgent care, the male doctor didn’t make eye contact with me, and only spoke to my male partner. About me. While I was in the room.Permalink On twitter.com
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Instead of doing an EKG, they gave me IV fluids. Afterward, my heart rate was unchanged. They sent me home.Permalink On twitter.com
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I was so unwell, I didn’t notice they sent us away with a folder with paperwork in it. I found the folder this evening.Permalink On twitter.com
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Do you know what the diagnosis was? The diagnosis was “fatigue”. The paperwork included a handout on reducing stress.Permalink On twitter.com
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I can’t even fathom doctor’s thinking. “She must be lying, or perhaps melodramatic, about the numbers on this chart. Must just be stress.”Permalink On twitter.com
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Women in acute pain are less likely to receive analgesics, less likely to receive opiates, and are subjected to longer wait times in the ER.Permalink On twitter.com
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Those longer wait times? That can be the difference between life and death. Sexism literally kills. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/store/10.1111/j.1553-2712.2008.00100.x/asset/j.1553-2712.2008.00100.x.pdf;jsessionid=EAA9D659AEC1A8208827E079621FE7CE.f02t04?v=1&t=igd34hf8&s=5de985cfcef638decaa09ea4307fb945b3686dfbOn twitter.com
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Fuck the patriarchy.Permalink On twitter.com
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Did I mention fuck the patriarchy? theguardian.com/society/2015/sep/28/endometriosis-hidden-suffering-millions-women (via @jamesmacaulay)Permalink On twitter.com
