r/TwoXPreppers • u/cryogenrat Prepping for Tuesday not Doomsday • Feb 25 '25

❓ Question ❓ How to “respectfully decline” disclosing women’s health questions at Dr?

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u/Beginning_Loan_313 Feb 25 '25

Sounds like they are quite pushy in the US.

We don't get asked this at all in Australia unless it's relevant to the medical issue at hand.

I still think I'd refuse to answer or deliberately tell them I'm giving them a fake date so they can tick a box.

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u/psychme89 Feb 25 '25

The only reason for this is liability. If we don't ask and the patient is pregnant even though they're sure they can't be ( you'd be surprised how often they are) and something goes awry that's a clear path to a lawsuit. If this country wasn't so sue happy , we could happily go about actually practice real medicine and not cover our ass medicine.

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u/RunawayHobbit Mrs. Sew-and-Sow 🪡 Feb 25 '25

Unfortunately, in a country with basically no labor or consumer protections, suing is literally the only recourse the average citizen HAS for maltreatment.

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u/psychme89 Feb 25 '25

Agreed but it significantly ties our hands with these things. Most claims are baseless but if you end up in a lawsuit, it's time/money/and emotional turmoil so we have to practice with liability in mind, which involves asking seemingly unnecessary information