In 1943, a team of ingenious Italian doctors invented a deadly, contagious virus called Syndrome K to protect Jews from annihilation. On October 16 of that year, as Nazis closed in to liquidate Romeās Jewish ghetto, many runaways hid in the 450-year-old Fatebenefratelli Hospital. There, anti-Fascist doctors including Adriano Ossicini, Vittorio Sacerdoti and Giovanni Borromeo created a gruesome, imaginary disease.
The doctors instructed āpatientsā to cough very loudly and told Nazis that the disease was extremely dangerous, disfiguring and molto contagioso. Soldiers were so alarmed by the list of symptoms and incessant coughing that they left without inspecting the patients. Itās estimated that a few dozen lives were saved by this brilliant scheme.
The doctors were later honored for their heroic actions, and Fatebenefratelli Hospital was declared a āHouse of Lifeā by the International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation.
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So I recently got surgery two weeks ago and on the day of the surgery, they had me waiting in a cold room in just a gown because they had to do a pregnancy test. I had just gotten off my period literally two days ago and unless I was miraculously the next Virgin Mary, Iām 100% not pregnant. The nurse barely looks up from her charts to acknowledges this before insisting that I had to take another test. If I didnāt take another one, they would immediately cancel my surgery. It was hospital policy.
Iāve had this condition all my life but its gotten completely unbearable the past few years and Iāve been actively going to the doctors the last two years trying different methods to allievate my pain and this surgery was my last chance at any type of pain free life. It took 6 months to schedule and if I had to wait another second, I was going kill somebody. Safe to say I was a little pissed. I sat in that freezing room, irritated with an IV needle sticking in my hand, waiting on the nurse to find records of my pee test that I did less than a two week ago at their request. She couldnāt find the test results. She handed me an empty container with a cheery smile and an obnoxious prep talk that I did not ask for and told me to fill it.
One of the preparatory requirements they gave me was that the night before the surgery I couldnāt consume any foods or liquid (water especially). So I couldnāt pee. I asked for some water and she reluctantly gave me a cup with two sip fulls.
My surgery was scheduled for 9 A.M, they told me to come in at 7:30 A.M. It was already 11:41 A.M. when I had to retake the test and I didnāt go in until almost 1 P.M. The fact that I had to go through that extra hoop and have the threat of my surgery being cancelled hung over me like a noose just because of a pregnancy test is beyond aggravating. People love perpetually valuing the potential of a possible fetus over the lives of already living women. We always seem to come second no matter what.
Thatās sounds extremely stressful. Iām sorry you had to go through that on top of everything else. We arenāt effing incubators!
This is so common amongst girls and women dealing with medical care
[Medical/Miscarriage TW] Earlier this year I went to the ER on a Monday night with terrible abdominal pain, cramps, throwing up, the whole shebang. They did an ultrasound but couldnāt see anything so they attributed it to a bad stomach bug, gave me IV fluids & anti-nausea meds, and sent me home Tuesday morning.
They didnāt want to do a CT scan, you see, because āWe donāt want to irradiate your uterus unnecessarily.ā Hereās the thing. There was NO way I was pregnant AT ALL because I was literally still suffering & passing the remnants of a fucking spontaneous miscarriage. Not only that, I told them: the miscarriage was a surprise and an accident. I do not want children, had not been trying to have a baby, and had not known I was pregnant until it stopped (it was a weird year).
I was severely dehydrated and on morphine but I do remember telling them āI donāt care about my uterus, Iām not using it.ā But because of their concern for any future potential other fetuses, they didnāt do a CT scan. And 20 hours later I got to experience the worst pain of my life, my first CT scan, and my first surgery when my appendix stopped just being infected and decided to go ahead and burst.
I donāt usually add my own $0.02 to posts but misogyny in medicine needs to stop.
Yeah, this happened to me, too, about 17 years ago at University of Chicago Hospital after getting hit by a car.Ā
I got kidney stones my first semester of undergrad and they wouldnāt give me the scan until I did the pregnancy test, but I couldnāt pee because dehydration and kidney stones. I was in pretty awful abdominal pain to the point where I couldnāt stand, sit, or lay down without pain. I told the doctors id never even had sex, that it felt like kidney stones, and they still insisted. My friend overheard them mocking me- obviously I was lying because I was a college freshman and all freshman girls had sex lmao. So hours and hours later and I finally get the ct scan and surprise! Its kidney stones. I was in an unnecessary amount of pain for hours because an imaginary fetus was more important than my actual immediate health.
Iāve had one pregnancy test in my life despite there never having been a time when I was pregnant. To make it even better that one pregnancy test happened when I was eleven and about to have heart surgery. I was on my period at the time but they still insisted I be tested ~just in case~.
The best assignments are always the ones where you can use tv shows or movies. Had to do one explaing the four parenting styles in a media of my choosing and of course I chose South Park! š
I was just like FINALLY MY OBSESSIONS COME IN HANDY. Though not the first time I had to do assignments like these. Always fun when the professors let us use photos or gifs too ^^
I love how this one turned out. Forever salty that this moment was cut from Skin Deep, but of course, Belle is enjoying the moment more in my version, hehe.
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