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Every single woman I’ve talked to about it has described how difficult it has been to get treatment from male doctors. They all experienced skepticism about their symptoms and invalidation that what they were experiencing was real.
It’s really tragic that we don’t know more about this disease and don’t have really effective treatments yet.
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
It's exactly how you describe, short appointments that are hard to come by and a general skepticism and aloofness from my doctors.
Find my a skeptic who has done surgery and seen the endometrial overgrowth on someone’s organs.
Your second point is spot on though. A doctor that suffered the disease or has seen it first hand will approach it differently.
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
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
I know someone who went from being almost bed ridden for a couple days each month to what most would consider normal after finding the right doctor and treatment.
Nowadays, after 2 years of the surgery, she manages it with a restrict and healthy diet, and the pill. It takes a big toll on the well being even after the pain is gone, and she is almost always tired because of it, the body is constantly fighting the inflammation.
You see more reasons for low carb/keto because it's the current diet trend.
My intuition is that the commentariat has factionized itself. Of course, the fundamental intent here is to make money irrespective of negative external effects. This is because shit rolls downhill.