More than 1.5 million women in the UK are affected by the painful condition - but new study says NHS is failing them

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  • D61 [any]
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    1 year ago

    my partner seeing this headline

    her muttering behind me "The fuck it is"

  • DavidGarcia@feddit.nl
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    1 year ago

    Doctors don't take 3 years of gaslighting classes for nothing. It's a skill they lernd through hard work, so they have a god given right to use it.

  • ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    Are doctors disincentivized from ordering tests? I don't fix humans but I sometimes fix machines, and testing components that might be related to the problem is, like, the first thing to do. How does anyone hear "chronic abdominal pain" and not think "hey maybe we should check and make sure all the organs in the abdomen, of which there are many, are in good condition"? Especially the uterus, which is well known for its relationship to painful conditions like endometriosis!