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In article , "Heidi Graw"
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>
>>"Deborah Terreson" 
wrote in message
>>news:mISdnY1FDc9LYZrfRVn-pw{at}comcast.com...
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>>Deb wrote:
>> I get more discrimination and outright ignorance of the hazards of the
>> work
>> I do from women than men. Now let's not beleaguer the obvious, toots, but
>> here *I* am, working in the predominantly MALE dominated trades, with no
>> small success and am the poster child for Women's Lib and Feminism's
>> successes in overturning the Bitter Boy mentality and yet get treated like
>> shit by women doctors.
>
> Deb, medical malpractise is not just confined to women doctors.

Oh, I know that Heidi. The main difference I have noticed is that men are
more observant - and they DO act with a bit more discretion, rather than
blithely follow orders. I walked into the doctors office - the Internal
Medicine MD my husband sees - and right off the bat, he looked at my feet
and asked if I worked in construction. Wha?!? I looked down and there was a
goo called 'Liquid Nails' all over the toes of my workboot! Whoa. Good call!

> Men make
> mistakes, too.  It's dreadful how poorly you were treated and how
> devastating the consequences!  I hope that doctor will eventually lose her
> license.

At this point, all I really want to do is give her a black eye.
>
> But, your experience does point to various assumptions that doctors may have
> about their patients and their lack of knowledge about the kind of work
> their patients are into.

'Ignorance' comes to my mind as a perfect description.. oh no, though...
'doctors' are edgeumucated, don'tcha know. They NEVER get it wrong..

>  Not all women are those home, hearth and
> motherhood types (I call those ones feminazis ) whose only concern may be
> about their monthlies or how well they are coping with their pregnancies.
> 
>
> This sort of bad medical care should not have happened to you.  I'm sorry to
> hear of it.

Well, it's over and done with. The sorriest part in all of this was, I'd
have paid extra cash for her to do it correctly. There's so little
professionalism in 'medicine' nowadays, as it's all about the doctors, men
and women, following predetermined jellybean trails of malpractice
protocols.

Wherever you live, make certain you avoid ANY HCA hospital though. They are
the worst.

Better to seek aid from a herbalist or dietician..

Deb.
>
> Take care,
> Heidi
>
>


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