I feel like I need a degree to fully appreciate this strip, but I also feel like you could interpret this in any direction. Like, does the doctor care more about the woman or less? Is the male patient more whiney or did the doc have more empathy with him? Getting more and stronger painkillers is not necessarily a good thing and I have no idea about any of the conditions and how painful they are
the main issue is that women pain and issues are generally not taken as seriously as men’s. it’s a documented issue. and it is not just pain. quite often serious issues get ignored by doctors because the patient was in her period and that explains it, and end up with serious complications.
I have read far too many articles about women being ignored when they complain of abdominal pain, only to come back later and find out it was cancer the whole fucking time.
It makes me sick. I don’t distrust the science of medicine. I distrust the practitioners of medicine.
just came from a bookclub (ended at 3am). but one black woman there was telling us about her pregnancy, where they forced C-section her without her consent, and how nurses came in and shoved their hands in places without asking or responding to her when she said they were hurting her. and how she was invited to a an event to tell her horror story, which ended in a standing applause… gor the gynecology team…
I feel like I need a degree to fully appreciate this strip, but I also feel like you could interpret this in any direction. Like, does the doctor care more about the woman or less? Is the male patient more whiney or did the doc have more empathy with him? Getting more and stronger painkillers is not necessarily a good thing and I have no idea about any of the conditions and how painful they are
the main issue is that women pain and issues are generally not taken as seriously as men’s. it’s a documented issue. and it is not just pain. quite often serious issues get ignored by doctors because the patient was in her period and that explains it, and end up with serious complications.
I have read far too many articles about women being ignored when they complain of abdominal pain, only to come back later and find out it was cancer the whole fucking time.
It makes me sick. I don’t distrust the science of medicine. I distrust the practitioners of medicine.
just came from a bookclub (ended at 3am). but one black woman there was telling us about her pregnancy, where they forced C-section her without her consent, and how nurses came in and shoved their hands in places without asking or responding to her when she said they were hurting her. and how she was invited to a an event to tell her horror story, which ended in a standing applause… gor the gynecology team…
it’s really bad
They care more because the woman only had a vestibularectopicectomy* while the man has a parental cyst removed. Whatever the fuck those are.
Why wouldn’t they have the same procedure done?
Why do I need a medical degree to understand a comic?
Right? we need the follow up strip where the dude is now addicted to opioids and is pan handling for “gas money” lol.