• Icytrees@sh.itjust.works
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    13 hours ago

    I go to most of wife’s appointments

    Have you considered this could be the reason she gets asked if she’s pregnant?

    appointments

    As in, not an emergency. In an emergency the first imperative is to stop the immediate health threats, in this case the gunshot wound. The doctor doesn’t need to know about menstrual health do his ABCs.

    Also, as someone with extensive experience with Canadian healthcare, and I’ve held certifications up to OFA 3 (not a big deal, but it did qualify me to intubate, immobilize, take a health record, etc.) I’ve been to emergency rooms in four different provinces and I’ve been on enough different meds to fill a small pharmacy. At most I get asked if I could be pregnant, but that comes after my immediate conditions have been managed and we start discussing meds.

    I think either your wife has a shitty doctor, the doctor actually asks if she’s pregnant and you’re deliberately misquoting to support your argument, or she’s seeing her regular doctor for a checkup - where menstrual health is a reasonable thing to ask about and/or has a related medical condition regarding her period.

    And completely missing the point of the comic, which is about how the immediate health issue is being dismissed for the reasons I already stated.