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Thread: Outpatient #hysteroscopy without anaesthetic
Everyone is aiming to save lives and detect and beat cancer. Fantastic!
NHS staff are there for us in these mad times - but they're under huge pressures, having to meet targets, including financial.
Everyone is aiming to save lives and detect and beat cancer. Fantastic!
NHS staff are there for us in these mad times - but they're under huge pressures, having to meet targets, including financial.
There is an institutionalised false mindset that 'being a woman = living with pain', which means that women's pain is known to be taken less seriously than men's.
So standard NHS procedure is to incentivise carrying out hysteroscopies, a particular form of invasive surgery on women, without any form of anaesthetic. Because it's cheaper.
Thread: @RCObsGyn @RCoANews
Three things all trainee and practicing gynaecologists, GPs and hysteroscopists must understand to be effective.
Read this - and learn about the women you will be treating.
Three things all trainee and practicing gynaecologists, GPs and hysteroscopists must understand to be effective.
Read this - and learn about the women you will be treating.
1/ Gynaecology can be embarrassing.
It 'shouldn't be.' But:
Female socialisation has eternally told us about PRIVATE parts.
'Pudenda' comes from the Latin for 'to shame'.
It 'shouldn't be.' But:
Female socialisation has eternally told us about PRIVATE parts.
'Pudenda' comes from the Latin for 'to shame'.
Many languages even contain the word 'shame' in vocabulary for female genitalia.
Religion and culture intrude - periods and their pain can be known as 'the curse of Eve'.
Punishment on all the female sex for one woman's sin.
Religion and culture intrude - periods and their pain can be known as 'the curse of Eve'.
Punishment on all the female sex for one woman's sin.
Thread
Women are sharing ghastly experiences of outpatient #hysteroscopy - invasive surgery with zero anaesthetic - the NHS UK standard practice
This barbaric, inhumane, misogynistic assault against women's rights must end
@RCObsGyn
@HysteroscopyA
@RCoANews
@NHSuk
@TheBSGE
Women are sharing ghastly experiences of outpatient #hysteroscopy - invasive surgery with zero anaesthetic - the NHS UK standard practice
This barbaric, inhumane, misogynistic assault against women's rights must end
@RCObsGyn
@HysteroscopyA
@RCoANews
@NHSuk
@TheBSGE
'My scream sounded unearthly to me, like an animal in terrible pain. Part of my inside was being cut without any anaesthetic. I am 73 years old'
careopinion.org.uk/836391
#Hysteroscopy without #anaesthetic
careopinion.org.uk/836391
#Hysteroscopy without #anaesthetic
'excruciatingly painful and the gas and air did not really do anything to alleviate the pain'
careopinion.org.uk/842763
careopinion.org.uk/842763
