Woman gets hantavirus, told by doctors it's probably anxiety

[pacificnic@zeroes.ca]

@skinnylatte I feel like it should be pretty easy to get a formal anxiety diagnosis in general, right?

RIGHT?!?

[ggmcbg@mstdn.plus]

@skinnylatte

"She's hysterical." - Initial diagnosis from every male doctor for everything involving a woman.
Of course, having their docs calling anything they can 'anxiety' absolves the cruise line of culpability.

[medusaskirt@mastodon.social]

@skinnylatte we could have nice things were it not for sexism. imagine being a doctor so bad at listening to women that you almost make an already-bad deadly disease outbreak worse

[dulcedemon@beige.party]

@StaticR
I have this hypothesis that most people, but especially doctors, strive to do the least most in any given situation. As in, doing just enough, such as dismissing hantavirus as anxiety, to absolve themselves of having to do any real work like sending the patient for diagnostic tests that require follow-up.

They saw and diagnosed the patient. Although the diagnosis was incorrect and based upon little more than their personal opinion, they technically did their job.

[mbridegam@federate.social]

@skinnylatte

In other news, water is wet.

[nap@social.coop]

@skinnylatte

Im of the opinion that even if I thought it was just anxiety, treating the woman exposed to hantavirus as if she has hantavirus will: 1. Not hurt her 2. Ensure that the public health is maintained 3. Save her life if I'm wrong.

[kimlockhartga@beige.party]

@skinnylatte Women can't even be taken seriously in an outbreak.

[cassandravert@indieweb.social]

Same here!
We've entered the satire singularity, or something like that.

[sibshops@mastodon.online]

@skinnylatte They also probably told her to lose some weight.

[mast0d0nphan@beige.party]

@skinnylatte Close enough. Welcome back, 1400s.

[bronwyn@sfba.social]

@skinnylatte WAIT I THOUGHT YOU WERE JUST BEING FUNNY

[josephmeyer@c.im]

@skinnylatte Cause and effect are often reversed and particularly if blame can be put on a behavior (e.g., anxiety) that can be judged as personal weakness. Sarcasm: Oh look, she’s anxious—weak, rather than resilient. We reverse cause and effect, blaming others for their illness symptoms rather than striving to understand causes. She apparently had good reason to feel anxious: active disease.

[proscience@toot.community]

@skinnylatte

Pull the doctor's licence.

[Guest]

@StaticR @skinnylatte According to the article in the Guardian, the patient HERSELF said "what she was having at that moment was kind of like stress or anxiety or nervousness...." So, if you want to take her seriously -- you might still wind up saying it was anxiety.

Does having anxiety at the top of the possibility list mean that you should say it CAN'T be hantavirus? No. Take good medical care of her. But dammit "Snakes on a Plane" was so much easier than "Virus on a Cruise Ship".

[tootbrute@fedi.arkadi.one]

@skinnylatte maybe drinking raw milk will help?

[cwicseolfor@zeroes.ca]

@kimlockhartga @skinnylatte YEAHHHH, I cracked up into neither quite laughing nor crying seeing the top post because it’s the complete, unmitigated, ad-absurdum proof that no matter the circumstances, a woman’s account of her own experiences MUST be assumed to be inaccurate.

[cwicseolfor@zeroes.ca]

@stephanie @skinnylatte If you aren’t, they insist you “look too healthy” to be sick or injured. There’s no winning condition if they first diagnose you with female, just one angle comes with moralizing false concern and the other with patronizing “praise.”

[bob_zim@infosec.exchange]

@skinnylatte Paramedics wheel a woman into the ER with half her arm missing after a traumatic amputation and the doctor says “Well, it’s a start, but I’d like you to lose a little more weight.“

[kkarhan@c.im]

@odoruhako @prism @skinnylatte exactly.

We just accepted politicans to gaslight us into claiming it's over…

[beachbum@mastodon.sdf.org]

@skinnylatte Now she’s in critical condition. I don’t know much about the virus, but maybe had they started defensive measure it wouldn’t have gotten to this point.