Once my doctor had her finger in my butt and just then decided to ask me about how my mental health was going and how I’m finding the new antidepressants.
A nurse once tried to make me have a ‘compulsory’ Chlamydia screening before I could see the doctor. When I saw the doctor we found out it wasn’t compulsory at all and we don’t know why she wanted me to do it. I was 14.
Edit: just answering some questions that seem to be coming up. I’m not POC. I was there with probable ibs and had been there quite a bit due to generally shit health that year, so I think the nurse was just fed up of me. I’m not in the USA. Luckily my mum was with me and refused it and told the doctor who was just baffled by her.
Oh man. This reminds me when I went to the ER when I was 17 for appendicitis. My appendix ruptured in the 10 HOURS they made me wait there because “I wasn’t in enough pain to be having a medical emergency”.
I was told.. it’s a UTI. We test. Nope. Its a bladder infection? Nope. At this point it was clear no one believed I was in pain. Surprisingly the only person that acknowledged I was in pain was a male nurse. He told me he could tell I was in pain even though I could hold a relatively normal conversation because I was gripping the bed rails so hard my knuckles were white. Meanwhile my female doctor was rolling her eyes at me when I told her how much pain I was in.
I wasn’t even asking for drugs. I was asking for help.
After 10 god damn hours I got an ultrasound done. They shuffled me back to my room and handed me some water. Acting irritated that I was still there.
10 minutes later my surgeon damn near kicked down my door. Started yelling at everyone to start prepping me for emergency surgery and then reprimanded a nurse for giving me water.
Now I don’t believe in love at first sight but God damn I wanted to kiss that man. That tiny, hairy, Indian man saved my life. The validation that I wasn’t crazy. Knowing I would have died if I had just gone home.
When I was coming up from surgery, he came to see how I was doing but I was super groggy. I apparently looked up to him and asked if he came from heaven and he said no.. India. And I just said “thanks india”, threw up in one of those kidney bean lookin dishes and knocked back out for a while.
I went to the emergency once, they asked me if I could be pregnant. Answered negatively. Then she told me they would need to make a test to be sure. Ok, fair enough, that’s the procedure.
But why every doctor who saw me this evening asked me the question again? Especially if they do a test anyway?! And reacted like I was lying! on purpose!
Mine and my aunt’s family went kayaking once, and my cousin fell into the water. Then next week she felt like crap and went to the doctors to see what she had. The doctor immediately assumed she was pregnant. She was not.
This is legit how every doc is here in my hometown I’ve have set up appointments to talk to them about me having insomnia and every time they say I’m to young to have it when 1 it’s a mental illness which doesn’t care about age and 2 it runs in my family really bad on both sides
Broke my foot in the middle of performing in a dance show when I was 16. I was in urgent care dressed all in black and covered in glitter and stage makeup.
“Are you pregnant?”
“No. I’m a virgin.”
“Any chance you could be pregnant?”
“Nope. Never had sex.”
“Are you trying to become pregnant?”
“…. Um… I’m here for my foot… that’s why I’m in this wheelchair…”
And that was my introduction to getting medical care as a woman.
Its relevant. I am a medical student and asked a lady who came in for a fall about her menstrual history and found out she had very light periods. Mentioned it to my professor who decided to refer her for genetic testing and found out she had a mutation called factor 5 leiden which increases blood clotting. Sometimes things you never even think of are connected by someone who takes a 2nd look at the complete medical history of a patient. It also helps spot potentially hidden issues.
Heh. My wife had a hysterectomy about 7 years ago.
She got hurt at work and sent to er.
The nurse asked if a chance about being pregnant. She mentioned the hysterectomy. Thr nurse said ok no chance.
The doctor came in reading thr notes and first question was when was your last period. My wife just gave me a worried look. Then said 7 years ago like I told your nurse. He asked again 10 minutes latter
When I was 13 I caught the flu. I couldn’t speak and had an awful cough as well as a fluctuating fever. When they were doing the questionnaire they basically said “could you be pregnant?” I was like excuse me but I have flu symptoms and I’m still in middle school, I can’t fall asleep let alone fall in love. On top of that they asked right in front of my mom so even if there was a chance I probably still would have said no.
“Is it possible you could be pregnant?” Lol, love when I make a super specific appointment, but it might just be your period/pregnancy/in-my-head-women-are-so-crazy
Hey everyone, Doctor here. The reason they always ask this question is because there are treatments for just about anything out there that can be harmful to a fetus. So any GOOD doctor will try and confirm this or rule it out. Still a good comic!!
Boxers fracture in my pinky knuckle. Super swollen, misshapen, and clearly broken. The doctors did not believe me or take me in for an X-ray until my Dad came into the room and told them verbatim what I had already told them.
I had a really bad uti one time and was peeing blood clots out. My mom and the urgent care doctors both tried to tell me I was on my period lmao. After they tested me they said I was lucky I came in when I did because the infection was moving to my kidneys.
A few months after I was raped I went to a FEMALE doctor and when she asked if I had sexual trauma I said yes, and she immediately asked “was it that traumatic? Did they have a gun?” And I, much younger than I am now, didn’t know what the fuck to say that. We stared at each other for a bit.
Doctors are such a shot in the dark, I haven’t seen many doctors that even begin to care.
one of my friends went into the emergency room because of horrible abdominal pain. was told that she was about to start her period for the first time (this was middle school and she hadn’t had hers yet). both she and her mom insisted that they x ray her or something but the doctors wouldn’t hear it. because a woman obviously can’t have abdominal pain for any other reason /s.
I temporarily lost my sense of smell for 8 months due to a sudden development of allergies and a sinus infection trapped in my nasal cavity due to the swelling brought on by the allergies.
My doctor gave me the run around for weeks adding my weight to the list of reasons why this possibly happened before he joked and said I needed to stop shoving marbles up my nose. I told him “please don’t joke. I can’t smelled oranges, taste peanut butter or the dead skunk by my house” a few months on a aerosol steroid and I got most of it back.
Got a weird reset of my sense of taste and smell. All urine smells like theater popcorn, cheap chocolate is shit, hot sauce is good, yeasty products smell harsh, I can tell bread has gone bad by smell alone and I prefer richer mayos.
Tbh we ask this because some medications and exames can’t be performed in pregnant women, so if a patient is in fertile age we have legal obligation do discard pregnancy
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Once my doctor had her finger in my butt and just then decided to ask me about how my mental health was going and how I’m finding the new antidepressants.
A nurse once tried to make me have a ‘compulsory’ Chlamydia screening before I could see the doctor. When I saw the doctor we found out it wasn’t compulsory at all and we don’t know why she wanted me to do it. I was 14.
Edit: just answering some questions that seem to be coming up. I’m not POC. I was there with probable ibs and had been there quite a bit due to generally shit health that year, so I think the nurse was just fed up of me. I’m not in the USA. Luckily my mum was with me and refused it and told the doctor who was just baffled by her.
Oh man. This reminds me when I went to the ER when I was 17 for appendicitis. My appendix ruptured in the 10 HOURS they made me wait there because “I wasn’t in enough pain to be having a medical emergency”.
I was told.. it’s a UTI. We test. Nope. Its a bladder infection? Nope. At this point it was clear no one believed I was in pain. Surprisingly the only person that acknowledged I was in pain was a male nurse. He told me he could tell I was in pain even though I could hold a relatively normal conversation because I was gripping the bed rails so hard my knuckles were white. Meanwhile my female doctor was rolling her eyes at me when I told her how much pain I was in.
I wasn’t even asking for drugs. I was asking for help.
After 10 god damn hours I got an ultrasound done. They shuffled me back to my room and handed me some water. Acting irritated that I was still there.
10 minutes later my surgeon damn near kicked down my door. Started yelling at everyone to start prepping me for emergency surgery and then reprimanded a nurse for giving me water.
Now I don’t believe in love at first sight but God damn I wanted to kiss that man. That tiny, hairy, Indian man saved my life. The validation that I wasn’t crazy. Knowing I would have died if I had just gone home.
When I was coming up from surgery, he came to see how I was doing but I was super groggy. I apparently looked up to him and asked if he came from heaven and he said no.. India. And I just said “thanks india”, threw up in one of those kidney bean lookin dishes and knocked back out for a while.
I went to the emergency once, they asked me if I could be pregnant. Answered negatively. Then she told me they would need to make a test to be sure. Ok, fair enough, that’s the procedure.
But why every doctor who saw me this evening asked me the question again? Especially if they do a test anyway?! And reacted like I was lying! on purpose!
Finally, I had several ulcers. -_-‘
“Have you tried losing weight?”
“It’s just anxiety. Try and be less stressed”
Mine and my aunt’s family went kayaking once, and my cousin fell into the water. Then next week she felt like crap and went to the doctors to see what she had. The doctor immediately assumed she was pregnant. She was not.
This is legit how every doc is here in my hometown I’ve have set up appointments to talk to them about me having insomnia and every time they say I’m to young to have it when 1 it’s a mental illness which doesn’t care about age and 2 it runs in my family really bad on both sides
Broke my foot in the middle of performing in a dance show when I was 16. I was in urgent care dressed all in black and covered in glitter and stage makeup.
“Are you pregnant?”
“No. I’m a virgin.”
“Any chance you could be pregnant?”
“Nope. Never had sex.”
“Are you trying to become pregnant?”
“…. Um… I’m here for my foot… that’s why I’m in this wheelchair…”
And that was my introduction to getting medical care as a woman.
It’s not sexist. But it IS annoying.
It’s good to know if a patient is pregnant so we know what meds we can and can’t give. It’s standard precaution
Its relevant. I am a medical student and asked a lady who came in for a fall about her menstrual history and found out she had very light periods. Mentioned it to my professor who decided to refer her for genetic testing and found out she had a mutation called factor 5 leiden which increases blood clotting. Sometimes things you never even think of are connected by someone who takes a 2nd look at the complete medical history of a patient. It also helps spot potentially hidden issues.
Heh. My wife had a hysterectomy about 7 years ago.
She got hurt at work and sent to er.
The nurse asked if a chance about being pregnant. She mentioned the hysterectomy. Thr nurse said ok no chance.
The doctor came in reading thr notes and first question was when was your last period. My wife just gave me a worried look. Then said 7 years ago like I told your nurse. He asked again 10 minutes latter
Wait OP, the doctor is also supposed to say “have you tried losing weight?”
When I was 13 I caught the flu. I couldn’t speak and had an awful cough as well as a fluctuating fever. When they were doing the questionnaire they basically said “could you be pregnant?” I was like excuse me but I have flu symptoms and I’m still in middle school, I can’t fall asleep let alone fall in love. On top of that they asked right in front of my mom so even if there was a chance I probably still would have said no.
To be fair, they ask so they know if there’s a chance you’re pregnant. Treatment depends on this. (X-rays, pain meds, etc)
It’s important because some drugs are very dangerous in pregnancy
That will be $500.
“Is it possible you could be pregnant?” Lol, love when I make a super specific appointment, but it might just be your period/pregnancy/in-my-head-women-are-so-crazy
Hey everyone, Doctor here. The reason they always ask this question is because there are treatments for just about anything out there that can be harmful to a fetus. So any GOOD doctor will try and confirm this or rule it out. Still a good comic!!
One time, I broke my hand.
Boxers fracture in my pinky knuckle. Super swollen, misshapen, and clearly broken. The doctors did not believe me or take me in for an X-ray until my Dad came into the room and told them verbatim what I had already told them.
Uhg.
Have u tried drinking some water, doing some mindfulness, losing weight and going on a walk?
PUPO (pregnant until proven otherwise) – that’s a well known axiom of emergency medicine
I had a really bad uti one time and was peeing blood clots out. My mom and the urgent care doctors both tried to tell me I was on my period lmao. After they tested me they said I was lucky I came in when I did because the infection was moving to my kidneys.
A few months after I was raped I went to a FEMALE doctor and when she asked if I had sexual trauma I said yes, and she immediately asked “was it that traumatic? Did they have a gun?” And I, much younger than I am now, didn’t know what the fuck to say that. We stared at each other for a bit.
Doctors are such a shot in the dark, I haven’t seen many doctors that even begin to care.
one of my friends went into the emergency room because of horrible abdominal pain. was told that she was about to start her period for the first time (this was middle school and she hadn’t had hers yet). both she and her mom insisted that they x ray her or something but the doctors wouldn’t hear it. because a woman obviously can’t have abdominal pain for any other reason /s.
an ovarian cyst burst a few days later.
Also, “have you had any unprotected sex, anal, oral or shared needles?”
Oh man that made me giggle.
“When was your last period?”
“Uh, 12-13 years ago? I don’t remember. Just before I had the hysterectomy.”
I temporarily lost my sense of smell for 8 months due to a sudden development of allergies and a sinus infection trapped in my nasal cavity due to the swelling brought on by the allergies.
My doctor gave me the run around for weeks adding my weight to the list of reasons why this possibly happened before he joked and said I needed to stop shoving marbles up my nose. I told him “please don’t joke. I can’t smelled oranges, taste peanut butter or the dead skunk by my house” a few months on a aerosol steroid and I got most of it back.
Got a weird reset of my sense of taste and smell. All urine smells like theater popcorn, cheap chocolate is shit, hot sauce is good, yeasty products smell harsh, I can tell bread has gone bad by smell alone and I prefer richer mayos.
Tbh we ask this because some medications and exames can’t be performed in pregnant women, so if a patient is in fertile age we have legal obligation do discard pregnancy