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

submitted 1 year ago by Lamb@lemmy.zip to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The fact thar your wife went to a GP instead of going directly to a women health doctor is an interesting choice to me as a german.
Afaik (am male) women go for everything related to down there and related to the specialised women doctor. GP is for and to treat general illnesses like a cold, vaccination shots, health questions or to transfer to another specialist like cardiologist, neurology, etc. so you can get an appointment.

[–] ellabee@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

then the correct answer from the Dr should've been a referral to a gyno, not "that shouldn't be treated yet in my medical opinion".

and she may not have realized it was perimenopause when she went to the Dr. fatigue and migraines alone could easily sap libido and be completely unrelated to anything "down there".

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

Totally agreed. Should have been referred.
But I'm no doctor and didn'e experience the whole story.