One of the plaintiffs, Laura Czar, wrote about her experience for Elle magazine, describing it as “a horrible, gut-wrenching pain,” and told a doctor at the time, “I can feel everything you’re doing.” Despite her protests, the doctor continued. The nurse pleaded guilty last year and was sentenced for tampering with the drugs. Later, the clinic discovered a nurse had been stealing vials of fentanyl and replacing the painkiller with saline solution. But some women were getting only diluted pain medication or none at all, according to lawsuits filed in the state Superior Court in Connecticut. Dozens of women sued Yale University claiming that during an egg harvesting procedure at its infertility clinic, they were supposed to be receiving the powerful painkiller fentanyl. In some cases, women have sued physicians for ignoring their pain. They feel like no one is listening to them.” - Ilene Ruhoy, neurologist, Seattle “They’re not validated with regards to their concerns they’re gaslit they’re not understood.
“They feel like no one is listening to them.” “They’re not validated with regards to their concerns they’re gaslit they’re not understood,” she said. She said many of her female patients have had experiences similar to hers.
Now, she has several smaller tumors that require radiation treatment. Ruhoy did not die on the operating table, but her tumor had grown so large it could not be entirely removed. She needed surgery, but first, she rushed home, hugged her 11-year-old daughter and wrote her a letter to tell her goodbye. By the time she got it in 2015, a tennis ball-sized tumor was pushing her brain to one side. “I was told I knew too much, that I was working too hard, that I was stressed out, that I was anxious,” said Ilene Ruhoy, a 53-year-old neurologist from Seattle, who had head pain and pounding in her ears.ĭespite having a medical degree, Ruhoy said she struggled to get doctors to order a brain scan. This year, the Journal of the American Heart Association reported that women who visited emergency departments with chest pain waited 29 percent longer than men to be evaluated for possible heart attacks.Īn analysis of 981 emergency room visits showed that women with acute abdominal pain were up to 25 percent less likely than their male counterparts to be treated with powerful opioid painkillers.Īnother study showed that middle-aged women with chest pain and other symptoms of heart disease were twice as likely to be diagnosed with a mental illness compared with men who had the same symptoms.
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