Woman gets hantavirus, told by doctors it's probably anxiety
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@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.
@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".
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Woman gets hantavirus, told by doctors it's probably anxiety
@skinnylatte maybe drinking raw milk will help?
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@skinnylatte Women can't even be taken seriously in an outbreak.
@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.
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@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
@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.”
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Woman gets hantavirus, told by doctors it's probably anxiety
@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.“
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@prism @skinnylatte We didn't finish the last one yet...
@odoruhako @prism @skinnylatte exactly.
We just accepted politicans to gaslight us into claiming it's over…
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Woman gets hantavirus, told by doctors it's probably anxiety
@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.
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Woman gets hantavirus, told by doctors it's probably anxiety
@skinnylatte A classic
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Woman gets hantavirus, told by doctors it's probably anxiety
@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. -
Woman gets hantavirus, told by doctors it's probably anxiety
@skinnylatte I'm feeling anxious
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Woman gets hantavirus, told by doctors it's probably anxiety
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?
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@skinnylatte Oh, shit. I read that headline and chuckled at what the Onion came up with today. Then I saw that it wasn't the Onion.
@ZenHeathen @skinnylatte same here !
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@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...
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@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.@psoul @skinnylatte on the other hand it was the doctor on board the ship, so the sécu is safe.
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Woman gets hantavirus, told by doctors it's probably anxiety
@skinnylatte
It is a very damaging bias that when a woman reports symptoms every thing is written down to hysterics
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@skinnylatte Close enough. Welcome back, 1400s.
@mast0d0nphan @skinnylatte atleast you got bedrest and a few leech friends then
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Woman gets hantavirus, told by doctors it's probably anxiety
@skinnylatte I sighed the biggest sigh
