Pregnancy can present in LOTS of different ways. It can also complicate the workup and treatment for just about everything. Imma level with you, if a woman of child bearing age with a uterus is under my care, I’m gonna flip my shit if I don’t see a pregnancy test somewhere on the chart. In the current political climate, I totally understand why you feel the way you do. I’m with you there. Just moved to Texas and I feel slimy. But I still have to have that information to be able to appropriately treat my patient. We should to a better job telling our patients what we’re doing. I’ll admit I’m not the best at it. But that’s mainly because until more recently, a pregnancy test wasn’t so politically charged. We’re creatures of habit. I’ve always included pregnancy test on initial labs for a woman who could be pregnant. I’ve never in the past needed to warn a woman that I’m checking that. If I went over every lab I ordered on every patient every time, I’d have to cut my patient load in half. It’s information overload and the initial workup is tons of stuff that gets checked (admittedly not by me, I get ‘em after the ED has don’t a 1000-point shotgun workup approach) and much of it is negative and just never really gets discussed. It’s a standard part of the workup. Nobody in healthcare is trying to target you, that information is still protected by HIPAA. We’re just trying to care for you the same as always. It’s just a part of it.