When you realize who the baddies are…

Doctors across the country are calling for an overhaul of the health-care system, as overcrowded emergency rooms struggle to keep pace with respiratory viruses. Health Minister Christian Dube is urging people to avoid ERs if possible, and to get vaccinated, which is bringing back unpleasant pandemic memories for many in the system. "Right now, the big problem is the overcrowding in the emergercies," said Quebec Association of ER Physicians (AMUQ) vice-president Dr. Delphine Remillard Labrosse. In Montreal, the average stretcher occupancy rate is over 150 per cent, and patients are waiting up to seven hours or longer in some hospitals to see a physician.

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Let me make just one thing clear. My biggest and most debilitating struggle is not my disability. It’s ableism.

To all non-Americans wondering if our healthcare system is as bad as they say, I have had two visits as a patient to the hospital that have made me never want to go back ever again. One where I was a virgin and I was on my periods, and the doctor certainly knew about the latter and almost certainly about the former, and yet decided to take a pregnancy test without my knowledge or consent. It was 100 US dollars and my mother tried to dispute the charge and lost because ✨capitalism.✨ Another where I had major lower back pain and I could not sit or walk properly as a result, and I had to wait three hours to get treatment. Like, if you're going to scam me out of my money, at least be fucking quick? Nope. Oh yeah, and all my classes are currently teaching me that our healthcare system is going to crash in the next decade at the rate we're going, so yay!

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#medical misogyny

Misdiagnosed & Mistreated - Misogyny & Androcentrism in Medicine

Although it is a well established scientific fact that the female body acts and reacts medically often very different than the male body, these differences get widely ignored. This widespread misogyny and androcentrism in medicine frequently gets women misdiagnosed and mistreated, which often proves deadly.

Studies found that females presenting with a heart attack were more likely to die when a male doctor treated them, compared with a female doctor.

Women are also 50% more likely to get their heart attack misdiagnosed - for their (typical to females) symptoms get seen as atypical and often dismissed; based upon only male symptoms getting seen as typical and indicative.

Female patients are also less likely to be prescribed preventative treatment after an initial attack.

Women are half as likely as men to receive pain killers after surgery.

When getting surgery, women have a 32% higher risk of dying - when operated on by a male surgeon.

They also have to wait longer to receive pain management medication in emergency rooms as well as often simply getting sedated instead of recieving pain management. No such effect is seen in male patients.

Female patients generally have to wait for significantly longer timespans to get a diagnosis. Per example, it takes typically 2.5 more years for a woman to be diagnosed with cancer and 4.5 more years for a diabetes diagnosis compared with men. In total, women were found to get diagnosed much later in more than 700 diseases compared to men.

In the Hunger Games, poorer people/districts are at a disadvantage in life. They are more likely to starve and more likely to die.

In The Divergent Trilogy, there is one group of people that seeks out to destroy another. Erudite, the smart, seek to systematically eradicate Abnegation, the selfless.

In Scythe, there are people who are allowed to decide if you live or die. Scythes use their own discretion on who to kill.

Do you know what these three books have in common?

They are works of dystopian literature.

Do recognize something? Can you connect something in these books to our modern world?

Yes, yes you can.

Economically disadvantaged people are less likely to find jobs and maintain a way of life. There are bills trying to be being passed in America to make it harder for people to rise out of impoverished backgrounds. (Hunger Games)

Racism is a large part of American history dating all the way back to the days of Colonialism. It can be seen today, 500+ years in the future as seen with recent rises in non-white aggression. (Divergent Trilogy)

The American healthcare system is shit. It’s impractical to actually go to a hospital without being in severe financial debt for the rest of your life. (Scythe)

We are living in a dystopian world. These examples are just in America. Open your eyes.

I'm A Breast Cancer Survivor. I Was Slighted And Belittled Throughout My Treatment.

y'know, maybe it's a good thing our healthcare system is in shambles. i'm a bit of a hypochondriac and i can't afford anything other than the "wait and see" approach and i haven't died yet, so.

AMLO's Morning Conference blends triumph and controversy. Success in combating crime is touted, yet lingering corruption taints the narrative. The President reads revolutionary history, attacks journalists, and laments a broken healthcare system.

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BREAKING:

"Israel" occupation forces have arrested the director of the Shuhada Jabalia clinic in Gaza after targeting it with bombardment hours earlier.

Gaza's healthcare is being systematically targeted.

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my hematologist said "all your little deformities add up" she wants me

You don’t know how suicidal you are till you face the American healthcare system

Growing up disabled is like-

Your body isn't yours. It hurts, but adults say the pain is for your own good. You have no choice but to believe them. Your classmates are going to school and having fun spending time together while you're stuck in a hospital. Your body isn't yours. You can't recall having a "proper" childhood or adolescence. Forget about privacy. You feel constantly watched, even when you're seemingly alone. It's all for your safety after all. You learn to stomach it. Your body isn't yours. Seeing the silhouette of the facilities that used to treat you puts a painful pit in your stomach to this day. You grow up angry at the healthcare system, with zero patience for it. You think nobody, especially not a child, should've gone through the same things you did, the same pain. Sometimes you almost feel bad about being angry. It was all for your own good after all. But the anger sticks. You give yourself time to indulge in the things you didn't get to enjoy when you were younger. You're too exhausted to care if the things you like make you childish in the eyes of others. You take years to reclaim your body, or to claim it at all for the very first time, if you're even given that much. You start to realise that the things you went through were actually extremely fucked up. Maybe, if you're lucky, you make peace with parts of you that were constantly being fixed and tugged at and cut open and prodded. It wasn't your fault. You didn't have any say in it. And it was all for your own good, after all.

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#medical misogyny

• Systemic Misogyny in Medicine - Misogyny kills

Women needing surgery face an increased risk of 32% to die if they get operated on by a male surgeon

Overall, female patients also had a 16% greater risk of complications and an 11% greater risk of readmission and were 20% more likely to have to stay in hospital longer when treated by male surgeons, compared to female surgeons.