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Cis people on Reddit be like, "a trans woman would never need a gynaecologist, and they'd never ask if you might be pregnant because they could tell, and anyway, it will be in your notes, which they will have read".

And I'm like, "literally everything you just said is wrong"

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NatalyaD

@FeralRobots I had over 40 surgeries as a child. My mum's constant bugbear was not reading notes.

I think one sign of NHS issues is the notes-reading has deteriorated further. Even if I ask them too, sometimes just too busy and want to babble at me which as a deaf person is hard to process. Or you can see clinicians are info overloaded and can't retain info (which I don't blame clinicians for in a designed to fail system).

Self advocacy is a survival skill in healthcare!

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Adam

@NatalyaD
I'm super super lucky with my GP. She seems to have an eidetic memory or something; she will say things like "I wouldn't normally recommend X but given your history of Y and that you're taking Z, I think it's appropriate".

(this is not calling you a liar; I've had waaaay too much healthcare in my life, and the majority are definitely the sort you describe. And I guess GPs are a different kind of thing in terms of having a long-term relationship with their patients.)

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