Thread by @HysteroscopyA

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.

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.

This conspires to cause the situation we're in now.

Infantilising, under-informing, rushing, lulling women into a false sense of security.

So we find ourselves following a kindly gynaecologist into a shocking, unexpected procedure to which we have not given informed consent.

'brutal'
'inhumane'
'excruciating'
'lambs to the slaughter'
'I was tortured by nice people'

say women subjected to this practise.

This inhumane @NHSuk practice of subjecting women to invasive surgery with no proper explanation, anaesthetic or full consent must end now.

There must be alternatives.

@RCObsGyn
@TheBSGE

#gynaecologist
#anaesthetist
#gynaecology
#hysteroscopy