A woman who says she was repeatedly denied adequate emergency care last spring is blasting the Newfoundland and Labrador health-care system, saying she’s been left psychologically scarred after being told several times that her gangrenous appendix was simply anxiety or constipation.
Joy Spence, 21, said she visited emergency departments at two hospitals in St. John’s over the course of nearly two weeks this May.
What began as weakness and abdominal pain on her right side quickly deteriorated into blacking out from the agony in her torso.
Wow - I’m familiar with some of the issues of male bias in healthcare but this one was PARTICULARLY brutal.
The (male) ER chief confidently stating that there is no bias but also that its hard to diagnose women was the absolute icing on the cake…
Am I unaware of my own bias? No! It’s the women who are wrong!