Shocked, shocked I am

[cjsmith]

"Doctors provide lesser quality pain care for women despite having the same pain complaint..."

And this surprises whom, exactly? Sometimes I can't get my head around how naive people still are.

I know some people who think I shouldn't be pissed off about this. That says a lot about them, I think, and about their attitudes toward (me / women).

Well, let's see if this next link lightens my mood:

The brain tissue of those with chronic pain showed shrinkage equivalent to the amount of gray matter lost in 10 to 20 years of normal aging. Hey, maybe I can come up with some snarky replies to the next spry and healthy sixty-year-old who tells me I'm "too young to hurt this much". Sadly, in another year or two I'll be too stupid to think of them.

Comments

[vito-excalibur.livejournal.com]

I think we need people to continue to be surprised and shocked about radical inequality. The point at which we all go "Oh yeah, well obviously that's just what happens" is the point at which we stop reacting by trying to fix it. Should that article not have been written because it's old news & who's interested anymore?

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

I guess I think of shock and surprise as the things people feel when they first clue in. Once we know what's happening we can work to fix it. I cling to my hopes that at the very least, ignorance of the problem is mostly gone. Obviously I'm wrong about that.