Are doctors disincentivized from ordering tests? I don't fix humans but I sometimes fix machines, and testing components that might be related to the problem is, like, the first thing to do. How does anyone hear "chronic abdominal pain" and not think "hey maybe we should check and make sure all the organs in the abdomen, of which there are many, are in good condition"? Especially the uterus, which is well known for its relationship to painful conditions like endometriosis!
I also fix machines, and I have worked with people who only pretended to fix machines but always ended up leaving the actual fixing to others because they did not (could not?) engage the troubleshooting mindset. I imagine it's similar in medicine, but with more university debt.
It is a well documented fact that doctors generally dismiss women's pain (and that of members of other marginalised groups), so they don't see anything actually needing fixing, so they don't care enough to investigate. It is only when we become a pain to them that they'll act.
Shit like this happens all the time. My wife had her ovary twist and went to the ER because she was in extreme pain. She sat in the waiting room for 10 hours since they thought she was just overreacting and couldn't be in that much pain. Once she actually got to see the doctor he "jokingly" asked if she possibly could have caught an STD (we've been together for 14 years by that point) and decided to take a blood sample to at least say they did something. When results came back with an EXTREMELY high white blood cell count, they actually started to take her pain seriously. She was in emergency surgery within a few hours after that. Had they ignored her any longer it would have ruptured inside her and potentially died. Coincidentally, when they went in to untwist it, that's when they realized she also has endometriosis. After years and years of being told by her doctor that periods are painful and just deal with it, she finally had proof that it was actually not normal to be in that much pain every month.
I really don't understand why a woman in pain is not a concern but if a man has a headache, then they leap into action.
My sister lived in London and had really bad headaches, went to the doctors repeatedly and was given pain killers but no scans or tests. This repeats over the course of a year until her behavior is changing. She isn't answering messages, she left her phone at work which she almost never lets out of her hand, much less her sight.
My mom called my sisters friend to go to her and see if she is alright. She was wandering the street towards the supermarket to call an ambulance, got to the hospital and they released her with stronger painkiller and no blood tests or scans. Three days later upon insistence from her social worker (she fostered teens so has a social worker) they finally did a blood test, then a scan and found a giant tumor in her brain. She was dead a few weeks later.
If they hadn't just brushed off her increasing pain levels for a whole year of doctors appointments maybe they could have given her a few months to live and people could have said goodbye.
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It really is, teachers are truly undervalued/underpaid and parents these days trust their kids are telling the truth. If a kids mouth is moving, they are almost certainly lying lol.
It's not like that where I'm teaching, in Canada, but I understand it's similar in large swaths of the US, particularly in "red states".
Of course things have gotten worse since COVID, and screen addiction is a problem (I say when I'm on my phone instead of sleeping), but it's not hard to control a class as an experienced sub, from what I've encountered across two provinces and over a dozen schools. I think that's a reasonable benchmark, too, since students are usually on their worst behaviour with subs.
Not the US, but I hear similar stories from Belgium, the Netherlands and France. Covid did a lot of damage, but it's not just that. It's not just phones either.
It's that teachers no longer enjoy the authority they once had(not just a teacher thing, people will happily argue with their doctor based off a 5 second google), and the relationship with parents is often poor or even combative so they don't work with the teacher. We're talking parents beating up teachers or thinking they know better than the professionals. Parents are also often and increasingly overstretched. I had kids whose parents I'd never see. Education is also often underfunded and underpaid, certainly if you factor in the hours you need to put in, especially as kids are more easily bored and you can't just hold a lecture.
There are staff shortages everywhere, but because there are staff shortages, new recruits often don't get enough support, which means they leave within the first few years, which means existing overstretched staff don't see the point in supporting new staff, which means new staff are even less supported, etc. etc.
The fuck kind of sense does that make? Housing is an issue everywhere for generally the same fucking reason. Because the ultra wealthy are treating property like the Swiss bank accounts they lost a decade back. If you want to control your crashing affordable housing market then take it away from the wealthy foreign pockets. Not already broke ass students.
That’s what they’re doing. Foreign students, especially from China, are the ones driving up prices in places like Vancouver. They come to school, mommy and daddy buy them 3 homes because they don’t like the last one, and sit on them because they got assets out of China now.
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