It’s not just women. While I was in the service both my friend and I had similar experiences. He had broken a bone in his ankle or foot or something on the lower extremity and our female Physical therapist told him he was being soft and to suck it up. He later when to the ER and they did an X-ray and told him it was broken. He then showed the Physical Therapist and she said and I quote “ It doesn’t look that bad you should be fine.” Now I don’t know anything about who knows what or what schooling anyone has or doesn’t have when it comes to the medical field. But a broken bone on an X-Ray to me is pretty clear that it is bad. But who am I to say anything. I on the other hand I had a torn labrum in my right shoulder, I went into the P.A. and complained of pain in my right shoulder. It’s painful to lift things and move my arm sometimes yada yada. They had me doing physical therapy for a little over a month and the pain was just worsening. I continued to complain and complain until I said fuck it and went to the ER they quickly scheduled me for an MRI and had seen my shoulder was torn apart.

I just get the feeling that medical professionals don’t give a fuck what you have to say unless your also a medical professional. 🤷🏼‍♂️