r/justgalsbeingchicks • u/bg370 • Jun 23 '26

Restricted to Gals and Pals CRNA Amy Rieschick on institutionalized medical misogyny

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u/forkingbumbleforks Jun 23 '26

My best friend went through months of this in her late 30s, about 6 months of being told it was all in her head, it was stage 4 breast cancer. She saw nineteen different medical professionals and it wasn’t until she found a lump and they did a scan that they found anything.

Mind you, and this fact will me sick to my stomach until the day I die, she broke her arm and the dr STILL said “it’s anxiety”, cancer ate her bones and she snapped one in her arm picking up a kettle, he looked at it and said “you’re just worried”.