Monday, February 22, 2010

Lying Anti-Women Doctors

So instead of just plastering his walls with "I hate women and that's why I'm an anti-choicer", this doctor prefers to bully women who come to his office with these lying pictures created by fanatical women-hating anti-choicers and used by doctors who have no idea what it means to respect a patient.

The funniest thing is that these so-called doctors would not be able to make a living without women. They need us for their livelihood but they hate us all the same. They use these vile intimidation techniques in hopes that if you show these cartoonishly stupid pictures of fetuses - that have no connection with reality whatsoever - women would be bullied into feeling bad for controlling their own bodies.

I have no idea where this particular "doctor" was educated but he must have been a pretty sucky student. If he had actually tried absorbing the material offered to him, he would know that the stages of development of a fetus look like what you see in the picture to the right, and nothing like his garish cartoon.


Why don't we see this, a lot more realistic picture on the walls of our gynecologists' offices? Why should we be exposed to lies and humiliations when we go to a see a doctor? What would we think of a cardiologist who put up the following picture on his wall to illustrate what your heart looks like after a heart attack:

If we were confronted by this silly cartoon in a cardiologist's office, we'd say he is an illiterate quack, wouldn't we? So why should we hold Ob-Gyns to a different standard? Why should we be fed lies right in the doctor's office? Is it too much to expect that I doctor would come to work to treat patients, not to brainwash them?

If a doctor greets you wth lies the second you enter his office, how can you trust anything he says?

Why is it that women cannot be left in peace - without somebody rushing over to hector, brainwash, humiliate and patronize us - even we seek medical care?

13 comments:

Anonymous said...

The way that some people think of women, you wouldn't think they were half of humanity.


-Mike

Clarissa said...

I really have no luck with OB-GYNs. I always meet some really weird ones.

NancyP said...

The fetus at 12 weeks is well formed in that the major structures have been made, and now need to grow. A realistic picture would show a 12 week fetus as blood red, since the skin is thin and there is zero fat.

What are your geographic limitations? As for the OB portion of care, there are limited numbers of OB docs in St. Clair County due to its reputation for large malpractice awards. Many women seeking OB care go over to MO.

V said...

12x7=84 days. The second chart just does not cover that.

Clarissa said...

I don't drive, so it has to be Edwardsville proper. So I'm pretty limited geographically. :-(

Anonymous said...

Really, on the second table there is no embryo on term of 12 weeks, but also on the first picture the embryo is shown on later term.
For example, on the first picture ears are well visible, and on such term ears are similar on two holes.
Besides, on a picture already generated nose, actually on such term of a nostril are moved widely apart.
The embryo weight - 20 gramme, length - 6,5 see
And here is how the embryo on this term actually looks.
http://www.mamochka.kz/_media/5b32d797f95d58f0021a1decb74999f2.jpg
NataliaV

Anonymous said...

Really, on the second table there is no embryo on term of 12 weeks, but also on the first picture the embryo is shown on later term.
For example, on the first picture ears are well visible, and on such term ears are similar on two holes.
Besides, on a picture already generated nose, actually on such term of a nostril are moved widely apart.
The embryo weight - 20 gramme, length - 6,5 see
And here is how the embryo on this term actually looks.
http://www.mamochka.kz/_media/5b32d797f95d58f0021a1decb74999f2.jpg
NataliaV

Anonymous said...

Really, on the second table there is no embryo on term of 12 weeks, but also on the first picture the embryo is shown on later term.
For example, on the first picture ears are well visible, and on such term ears are similar on two holes.
Besides, on a picture already generated nose, actually on such term of a nostril are moved widely apart.
The embryo weight - 20 gramme, length - 6,5 see
And here is how the embryo on this term actually looks.
http://www.mamochka.kz/_media/5b32d797f95d58f0021a1decb74999f2.jpg
NataliaV

Anonymous said...

Unfortunately the reference did not manage to be published.
Now I will try once again but if it will not turn out, the general takes my a word between the first picture and a real kind of an embryo of 12 weeks very little. However a real kind, it is easily possible to find in the Internet.
NataliaV


http://www.mamochka.kz/_media/5b32d797f95d58f0021a1decb74999f2.jpg

Anonymous said...

Excuse for such quantity of repetitions, it not I am guilty, and the computer - crazy
NataliaV

Clarissa said...

It's impossible to find good pictures or diagrams of fetal development (except sonograms which I don't want to post because that invades people's privacy) because there is so much garbage generated by fanatical religious anti-abortionists. It's impossible to find good, realistic pictures where a fetus at 2 weeks does not smile and way its perfectly formed little hand.

Anonymous said...

We can scan my ultrasound pictures and you can post them! I remember proudly showcasing the 12-week pictures to family members (yourself included!). The main questions were: -Where is the baby? - Oh, is that the head? - Is that a tail? - How can you tell it's a baby?

M.

P.S: Even my 20-week ones did not seem to elicit much excitement as you still couldn't tell what was what.

Clarissa said...

Exactly! As beautiful as the baby turned out to be when she was born, on those sonograms there wasn't much to admire. :-) :-)