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“Medical staff directed questions to their actual patient, even when there was a man present who thought he could answer them as well,” isn't sexism.

Expecting anything else, though, is.



> there was a man present who thought he could answer them as well

That’s a funny way to characterize a bunch of male doctors ignoring my wife’s request for them to ask me simple questions instead of her because she was incapacitated with pain, particularly when in a previous situation I broke my ankle and my request for questions to be addressed to her went fulfilled without any objections by the hospital staff.

But I will be sure to let my wife know that a stranger on the internet thinks her claims of sexism at the hospital are unfounded.




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