“The doctor lectured me about how I wasn’t allowed to go to the ER just because I didn’t like my period and was wasting his time.”
her own deeply personal experience — which prompted scores of other women to chime in with their own.'s story, followed by several others — each one recalling a time when the patient was completely dismissed by male ER doctors, only to have a serious, legitimate medical concern."I woke up at 3 a.m. Tuesday, vomiting and shitting. I took meds, but by evening, I also had a 102-degree fever. Wednesday, I felt nauseous. Thursday, I noticed my stool was black.
So when the doctor dismissed the blood as normal for women with PCOS, I explained it did not come from my vagina but my anus. He asked if I was sure. It pissed me off so badly that this doctor completely dismissed my concerns, and, if I hadn't pushed, I would never have gotten the referral I needed to get my body checked out.
I know the first doctor just stuck me in a room and didn’t bother with me again until a new doctor came on the shift because he thought it wasn’t an emergency. Meanwhile, I was in absolute agony." —"I was peeing what looked like pure blood. The ER was 'pretty sure' I was mixing period blood into the sample. I was not having a period. The urologist then told me it was probably bladder cancer. It was not. It was a lupus attack.
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