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

[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.

[msarchange@mastodon.social]

@skinnylatte A classic

[psoul@sfba.social]

@skinnylatte and then us French people dare say our country is the birthplace of human rights (thanks Lafayette)…
Human and man, in most cases, are the same word in French. It’s like misogyny is deeply rooted in French society or something.

[sibrosan@mastodon.social]

@skinnylatte I'm feeling anxious

[sibrosan@mastodon.social]

@skinnylatte

So although she had tested positive for #hantavirus and had been coughing, the coughing got better and she had no fever.

Should the doctors then have told her she had acute hantavirus and to prepare for the worst?

How is that a sensible diagnosis, and how would that have helped?

[vive_levant@masto.bike]

@ZenHeathen @skinnylatte same here !

[Guest]

@PuppyFromLosAndes no doubt a french doctor could do that but to be fair it seems here we have several doctors from different countries (or maybe only spanish, I don't know). And seeing messages under the post, sounds like every doctors in the world learned at the same school...

[vive_levant@masto.bike]

@psoul @skinnylatte on the other hand it was the doctor on board the ship, so the sécu is safe.

[pierrette@mastodon.uno]

@skinnylatte
It is a very damaging bias that when a woman reports symptoms every thing is written down to hysterics
that drags us back to the 1800’s

[jarinks@mstdn.social]

@mast0d0nphan @skinnylatte atleast you got bedrest and a few leech friends then

[krazykitty@mamot.fr]

@skinnylatte I sighed the biggest sigh