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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My great wardrobe has never been enough to escape the assumptions made based on my past medical history which includes a mental illness, and, perhaps worse, my gender. The worst ever was when a dismissive emergency med doc at INOVA wanted to send me home with antacids for my abdominal pain. What I actually needed was surgery for my bursting appendix. [/quote] I'm sorry that happened. Having a mental illness in your chart is worse than what handbag you carry. A nurse asked me if my inability to breathe could be due to anxiety. I had an infection that the doctor treated with two IV antibiotics. Being a woman and telling anyone you had anxiety is not good. They also make note of things you say in the chart, so I now say very uninteresting things and assume anything I say will be written down and saved. [/quote]
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