In The Healthcare Setting, Are Women Expected To 'Just Put Up' With Pain?

[bluefortress]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c23v42jdle7o

I don't understand where this stigma's come from. I understand it exists but I thought it was men who were told to 'put up'. Thats where the saying 'man up' comes from

[Old_Geezer]

Misogyny, an accusation that's bandied about too often.  If the doctors are inadequately trained then that's something to take up with the training hospitals. No one has any reason to deliberately treat one group worst than another. What one needs to check is how come more information has been obtained about exclusively male issues, than female issues; if that is true.

[Canary42]

There is very little evidence in the article that men don't have similar waiting times, or that they don't face similar "man up" attitudes from some medical staff.   So the shortcomings which undoubtedly do exist could well apply equally across both genders.  

The article is heavily based on the allegations/opinion of one woman, which has been blown up with a "medical misogyny" myth.

I saw a lot of hospital situations with my Mum in her last few years and I saw nothing but extreme care and sympathy in all cases with one exception, and that was a brutal female consultant. Perhaps I should approach the BBC to produce an article extrapolating my experiences.

In my experience it is widely recognised that health-wise women do have more health problems owing to the menstrual cycle and childbirth, and most men understand/sympathise with this situation - there are exceptions of course but surely in the minority.  

[jourdain2]

I think it applies to men and women  generally.  There is a case where male doctors do not understand the debilitationng pain and effects of some gynacological conditions, but that's ignorance and is being workedon, I think.

Having brokena hip replacement badly in Feb. and torn off a part of my pelvis, which was glued to the liner, I was appalled to be a)sent home from A&E with no pain control, after 27 hrs on a trolley in a corridor.  GPs then did the best they could and as short a time as a month later I was admitted for a repair/replacement.

I was given a tatty, photocopied piece of paper which explained that I was having major surgery and should expect pain.   BY HECK! Pain was what I got, in spades.

By contrast, my previous 2 replacements (in France) were totally pain-free - if you exclude the concommitant discomforts of stitches, drain removal etc..  Their brochure stresses that 'Pain is unnecessary and counterproductive; we will ensure that you do not suffer it'.  And I didn't.

In UK they don't even use drains - the result is an agonisingly swollen leg and slower recovery.

So, bluefortress, I don't think it is just women - although I do think that we are better at 'putting up with it' and should complain more to hasten understanding of the pain of some female issues.

[douglas9401]

The older I get the more I see that doctors aren't always all they're cracked up to be.

GPs today don't compare to the ones I had growing up.