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Messed up things a doctor did to you or someone you know? / Bad experiences with doctors (lemmy.zip)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Today I spoke to a coworker who had bad experiences with doctors and was seeking recommendations for a new one, then other coworkers chimed in, and so I decided to ask you guys as well. Well, not for a doctor recommendation, but about your bad experienced with doctors?

I'm gonna spoiler mine, because it makes me very uncomfortable, so perhaps it may make someone else very uncomfortable.

uncomfortable

I had a doctor who had no business in it make me show my intimate parts (I'm intersex) and she touched them. She was curious, I guess...? She's a psychiatrist, so, again, literally 0 business doing so. I already have trauma from regular people who treat me like a circus display, I really had no need for someone with systemic power over me using it like that...

No, I didn't report this. I was a teenager and barely functioning at the time. :/

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

A woman I know, younger than 30, received the "husband stitch" after giving birth. She does not trust medical professionals, and I don't blame her.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

It's fucked up and people who do it should lose the ability to work with medical patients and other vulnerable people for life. :/

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The what?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

An unnecessary suture placed in to make the vaginal opening tighter, ostensibly because this will feel good for their partner. It is an extra medical procedure that serves no purpose and can actually cause problems and pain for the woman later.

Sometimes birth causes tearing and doctors are ready to do some quick suturing right after. In this case, the person is saying that a doctor just went ahead and did this thing under the guise of cleaning things up but without asking about it first. This is medical assault.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

That’s fucked up