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[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (3 children)

Uhm. A bit slow today. The joke is that he should have asked if they wanted an anesthetic before doing all the painful stuff, not after, right?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 hours ago

I think it's more that the doctor was struggling to insert it, so he offer the local anesthetic only to make his job easier.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

And at the very least the moment he noticed she was in pain. This also against a backdrop of doctors long believing women had higher pain tolerance.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah. For some reason, despite all the women telling them it hurts, doctors typically believed the sales critters when they said the procedure is completely painless.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 34 minutes ago

Well, if someone who controls his paycheck said that, what choice fid he have really? Because as we slready know, money is more important than people!

[–] [email protected] 31 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

Oh geez, I hope Jen’s friend wins her malpractice suit.

I get punchline is fictional, but potentially painful procedures always ask if anesthetics are possible.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Anesthetics for IUD insertion are very rarely offered, and often refused if requested

[–] [email protected] 23 points 7 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

Soft paywall, anyone got an archived link or something?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Sometimes this community will have the article

https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected]

[–] Doubleohdonut 23 points 9 hours ago

Confirmed. IUD without anaesthetic had me halfway up the table.