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Women's Rights & Issues

Jilly_in_VA

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8. I know!

Reply to flying_wahini (Reply #7)

Fri Oct 20, 2023, 02:47 PM

Oct 2023

I'm a retired nurse too. One of the whiniest patients I ever had was a 25 year old male who'd just had his tonsils out. You'd have thought he was dying! And on the post-op open heart floor, it was the men who whined and complained about getting out of bed to walk in the halls. The women just sucked it up and did it, but if they said they had pain, you believed them. Most of them, anyway.

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BBC Presenter told to suck it up over extreme menstrual problems [View all] Jilly_in_VA Oct 2023 OP

Unbelievable that BlueSky3 Oct 2023 #1

She works for BBC fargone Oct 2023 #2

Oh, ok, BlueSky3 Oct 2023 #3

I has a work colleague with horrible problems TrogL Oct 2023 #4

I had a work colleague with issues like this TrogL Oct 2023 #5

Doctors need to start taking this stuff a hell of a lot more seriously. ShazzieB Oct 2023 #6

As a retired nurse I can tell you that Men do NOT do well with pain. If anything flying_wahini Oct 2023 #7

I know! Jilly_in_VA Oct 2023 #8