More Summer Heat
If this is the latest “Summer of Love,” it feels weird. Maybe it’s the heat, but like accidentally dragging your foot through a fire ant bed (pass the Benadryl), people sure are getting stirred up.
A 22-year-old woman made a TikTok video describing how her gynecologist refused to perform a tubal ligation for her, and instead gave her a brochure on IUD usage. She was miffed when told she might change her mind because she “might meet Mr. Right” (well not with THAT kind of attitude she won’t!). Was the GYN actually a good physician looking out for patient in the larger sense, considering her future and potential shifting perspectives, or a paternalistic jerk who should be strictly non-opinionated? Was the GYN worried about an angry, barren woman legally assaulting him when her biological clock started running down? Would a non-impregnatable state improve her Tinder ratios (if that’s even how it works, I have no idea)? She didn’t state whether the gyno referred her to another physician able/willing to help her, and obviously we can’t ascertain the veracity of her one-gal show acted out in a video. But shouldn’t any woman posting TikTok videos and demanding sterility be granted her wish? She’s just trying to keep up with the noble dudes (eye roll) diving on the fertility grenades for their chicks, so sisters are doin’ it for themselves (cue the Eurythmics).
On another crack of the paternalistic fissure, a highly skilled APRN who is just as good as any physician, just ask her, was fired by her parent company for a fit of Twitter idiocy (redundancy intended). Upset over the recent Dobbs decision from the U.S. Supreme Court, Shawna Harris posted for all the world to read: “I prescribe meds.. I can also choose not to prescribe them. So… from now on.. if you are a white male who votes conservative, your penis needs to ask God for the power to rise. No more viagra.”
Well, THAT’S not racist at all.
“I am allowed not to prescribe based on need. If you think God can provide, then why would I not allow for that? Conservative men rely on God to provide… I think that is a wonderful idea. Let us pray…”
Like that legendary Ron White line, she had the right to remain silent, but not the ability.
Worse, watchdog Libs of TikTok referred to her has “a doctor,” which was an egregious example of mis-professioning, and tantamount to violence against physicians. But I digress …
Her employer has since bounced her, uh, “she has since resigned” which is just as well.
It might be cool to figure out how to get the ligation-refusing GYN and the Viagra-refusing APRN to open a practice together – the money they could save NOT purchasing Press-Gainey surveys could pay for the company Christmas party, and a whole new twist on Magi-gifting.
The men getting the vasectomies. Are they protecting their women? I think they are protectimg themselves.
Protecting themselves from paternity suits and child support orders.
Performing an abortion is a dangerous procedure,a certain number will have complications. OB-GYN Physicians have HUGH liability costs.. Why do a procedure when a Pill will fix it and at much less cost. Too late for the pill to work..Opps sorry, should have been on the pill,used an IUD or insisted he wear a condom..
I am ALL for CHOICE. Protect yourself women, cause no one else CAN or will bother,not even your “best friends”, cause they might have opened the condoms in his wallet and punched a couple holes in them..HA, HA , the jokes on you.. Yes a physician can refuse to do a procedure for a variety of reasons.His or her choice based on their knowledge,skill and experience. CHOICES,CHOICES. WE ALL MAKE CHOICES for good or ill.
Choose well.
And yes why can’t the person find another doctor to see if they will do a sterilization. I am in a field where people get second opinions all the time. If one is an opinion that this might be regretted later that’s his opinion. Medicine is not a field where the patient gets to come in and demand what they want. This seems to be the recent trend. Would you grant anorexic the right to a prescription to amphetamines because they felt they were too fat and demanded it? And I agree with Pat any nurse practitioner calling themselves equivalent with their 500 clinical hours versus my $40,000 is more than a microaggression it’s a major aggression, a trigger point and hate speech against physicians
I agree that we should take any tick tock video with a very tiny grain of salt. They are always over dramatized in order to get people angry and riled up. Which is why they’re easy to put in the ridiculous category.
Let me remind you though, that over the last number of years large numbers of physicians have refused to perform abortions or prescribe medications such as the morning after pill. Some have lost their jobs over the issue. They didn’t make tick tock videos to my knowledge, but they did make the evening news. So it’s obvious that providers on both sides of the abortion issue feel they have the right to refuse medical procedures and medication to their patients. I don’t agree with either side’s view. You can advise your patient, but I don’t see where you can refuse to treat based on your personal secular or religious beliefs. If you’re going to go that route, you should have some other provider that you can refer your patients to.
June 14, 1987 @ 11AM I had my tubial ligation.I was 25yrs old. I had my daughter at 20. Since that time asked for one every appointment.
He finally agreed. The appointment was at 6AM… He walked in at 11ish..Looked at me and said your still here.. I got it. No regrets…
In todays mindset…
TOO much of Bias Controlled Internet jockeys, Politics, Media judge and jury (agree or not) NOT Enough self care.. Intuitively everyone knows what is best for them.. What was once personal is no longer…