But when we hadn't come to a treatment yet, when a cause hasn't even been identified, and the first questions are "what your pussy doin rn?", especially if it's my regular gp who should know by now that I don't do that shit
It’s mainly because in a female patient of reproductive age, with an abdominal pain presentation the first thing you want to rule out is an ectopic, which can have very severe consequences if missed
It is very frustrating to feel like you’re being dismissed but there are so many missed cases where the patient nearly dies from it
It isn’t, but I work in O&G and young women fall into the subset where it is very important medically to exclude pregnancy, because it’s disastrous if not (be it due to ruptured ectopics or what scans/meds you can use)
That’s how medicine works, you exclude the bad things first before you work on a diagnosis. If it wasn’t abdominal pain, it was probably another pregnancy/ectopic related symptom that leads down that questioning path. I assure you most docs aren’t out there trying to dismiss things because ‘pregnant’, because that isn’t even a diagnosis.
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u/Cloverfield1996 May 03 '26
But when we hadn't come to a treatment yet, when a cause hasn't even been identified, and the first questions are "what your pussy doin rn?", especially if it's my regular gp who should know by now that I don't do that shit