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

[ottaross@mastodon.social]

@skinnylatte That's the kind of public-health vigilance that lets us all sleep at night.

*chattering teeth sound*

[stephanie@ottawa.place]

@skinnylatte ah yes of course. I hope she wasn't also overweight, cause that's when they just send you home without even listening to you

[401matthall@mastodon.xyz]

@skinnylatte

Well... That was predictable. <sigh>

[401matthall@mastodon.xyz]

...

"We could run tests... But it's Friday and as you can see it's gettin' kinda late... So... We're gonna go with anxiety," looks at spouse, "She's got anxiety, right? Sure she does. M'kay. That's it. Go home and relax. It's not like you're dying."

...

[alison@beige.party]

@skinnylatte That tracks with the way women are treated in medical settings.

[datum@zeroes.ca]

@skinnylatte how is The Onion supposed to compete with lines like

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

#NotTheOnion

[skymtf@chaosfem.tw]

@prism @skinnylatte they won't let that happen, they will let us all go unhoused and dead before shutting down again. Back to the office BABY also genunily not ready for millions dead. I worry about my mom. I'm getting kicked out in august and I just want a job

[staticr@guild.pmdcollab.org]

@skinnylatte I keep getting extremely baffled by the complete unwillingness of doctors to do the most simple and basic thing of taking a patient seriously.

[lemniscate@infosec.exchange]

@skinnylatte

[disorderlyf@todon.eu]

@skinnylatte According to the article, Javier Padilla Bernálde is the name we should be constantly shaming. A fuckup like this, I'm not sure if I'd hire the cumstain to scrub toilets. Unfortunately, until all the pricks like this in power die, this is likely the best recourse we have.

[phl@mastodon.social]

@skinnylatte That's just awfully stupid, wtf...

Also why the crap are we sending these people all across the globe instead of having them quarantine for a bit ashore in a controlled environment?

[3tomatoesshort@disabled.social]

@skinnylatte
A couple of years ago that would have been a really heartbreaking/funny post from The Vertlantic

[3tomatoesshort@disabled.social]

@crankylinuxuser
@skinnylatte
I don't know exactly how long ago they transitioned, but it was before my childhood and I'm 43.

[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.