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Female doctors are also skeptics.

dingnuts 2y ago
there just aren't enough doctors. nobody talks about the cap on licenses that the AMA will issue, which makes it so nobody ever has more than a few minutes with their doctor. It's to the point now where seeing an MD at all is a challenge. You go to the hospital and it's NPs and PAs as far as the eye can see. it took my wife years to discover a chronic illness. why? every appointment is so short. how is any doctor supposed to diagnose anything so fast? disparate symptoms, patterns that are only noticeable over years, and five minute appointments and for the record she was dismissed for years by a woman doctor and finally diagnosed by a man. anecdotes are just that. what we need is more doctors, so we can afford to have more than a few minutes a year with them
- is_true 2y ago
  I live in another country.
- jeetoid 2y ago
  I've had to actually diagnose myself a couple times after seeing a string of doctors and even specialists. It's baffling how bad my experience has been and it's not just one specialty, and I have good insurance too. It's exactly how you describe, short appointments that are hard to come by and a general skepticism and aloofness from my doctors.
bognition 2y ago
Trained by male doctors, operating in a male dominated field. Find my a skeptic who has done surgery and seen the endometrial overgrowth on someone’s organs.
- is_true 2y ago
  The problem is that doctors tend to lose empathy, well not just doctors, most professionals. Your second point is spot on though. A doctor that suffered the disease or has seen it first hand will approach it differently.
  - david38 2y ago
    It is 100% irrelevant that a doctor “experience” a disease. They should have training / exposure to it though. I constantly hear non-medical people talk about how “only female doctors understand because they’re women”. What crap. The very same people when facing cancer magically don’t require a doctor who has had cancer. Suddenly they just want the most qualified. The problem lies much more in over-specialization, rapid patient turn-around, patient demand that treatments be easy, pills, and yes, training in how patients (fe|male) communicate and feel pain, illness, etc
- jgyter 2y ago
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- amy214 2y ago
  The thing about medicine is it has a lot of women who think that, "I am woman hear me roar, I will show my salt in this male dominated field" ... and end up in specialties such as OB/GYN, pediatrics (female dominated - some residencies in those fields are 100% female) Also family medicine, I wouldn't say those are female dominated but it's female majority, if any gender is dominating I'd say it's the majority, females So if the woman is going to family medicine doctor, or their OB/GYN, for this abdominal pain / diagnosed endometriosis, more likely it's a female doctor. The idea that it's 99.9% misogynistic men is anachronistic, especially so in these fields - and the persistence of that idea, to a degree, has resulted in misandrist kickback on the basis of the misogynistic man boogeyman
bryanlarsen 2y ago
From what I've heard, female doctors can be surprisingly unsympathetic to female issues. Especially something like endometriosis. "I get menstrual pain, it's no big deal".

there just aren't enough doctors. nobody talks about the cap on licenses that the AMA will issue, which makes it so nobody ever has more than a few minutes with their doctor. It's to the point now where seeing an MD at all is a challenge. You go to the hospital and it's NPs and PAs as far as the eye can see. it took my wife years to discover a chronic illness. why? every appointment is so short. how is any doctor supposed to diagnose anything so fast? disparate symptoms, patterns that are only noticeable over years, and five minute appointments and for the record she was dismissed for years by a woman doctor and finally diagnosed by a man. anecdotes are just that. what we need is more doctors, so we can afford to have more than a few minutes a year with them

is_true 2y ago
I live in another country.
jeetoid 2y ago
I've had to actually diagnose myself a couple times after seeing a string of doctors and even specialists. It's baffling how bad my experience has been and it's not just one specialty, and I have good insurance too. It's exactly how you describe, short appointments that are hard to come by and a general skepticism and aloofness from my doctors.

bognition 2y ago

Trained by male doctors, operating in a male dominated field. Find my a skeptic who has done surgery and seen the endometrial overgrowth on someone’s organs.

is_true 2y ago
The problem is that doctors tend to lose empathy, well not just doctors, most professionals. Your second point is spot on though. A doctor that suffered the disease or has seen it first hand will approach it differently.
- david38 2y ago
  It is 100% irrelevant that a doctor “experience” a disease. They should have training / exposure to it though. I constantly hear non-medical people talk about how “only female doctors understand because they’re women”. What crap. The very same people when facing cancer magically don’t require a doctor who has had cancer. Suddenly they just want the most qualified. The problem lies much more in over-specialization, rapid patient turn-around, patient demand that treatments be easy, pills, and yes, training in how patients (fe|male) communicate and feel pain, illness, etc
jgyter 2y ago
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amy214 2y ago
The thing about medicine is it has a lot of women who think that, "I am woman hear me roar, I will show my salt in this male dominated field" ... and end up in specialties such as OB/GYN, pediatrics (female dominated - some residencies in those fields are 100% female) Also family medicine, I wouldn't say those are female dominated but it's female majority, if any gender is dominating I'd say it's the majority, females So if the woman is going to family medicine doctor, or their OB/GYN, for this abdominal pain / diagnosed endometriosis, more likely it's a female doctor. The idea that it's 99.9% misogynistic men is anachronistic, especially so in these fields - and the persistence of that idea, to a degree, has resulted in misandrist kickback on the basis of the misogynistic man boogeyman

bryanlarsen 2y ago

From what I've heard, female doctors can be surprisingly unsympathetic to female issues. Especially something like endometriosis. "I get menstrual pain, it's no big deal".