The Story of Me!

You wouldn't imagine the stories I hear either from my colleagues at the clinic or from the patients I see, the female ones I mean. A lot of them come with physical symptoms, but once you go through their history and make a complete physical examination, and if you want, order the tests you need, you find that everything is normal. So you try to dig more into their social history, you find that a lot of em suffer because of their husbands. It's either that he hits her, or divorced her and is still giving her a hard time, or doesn't spend on the house and the kids, and she ends up taking care of a family with 12 children or so, and with no one to support her, not financially nor emotionally.

It just upsets me to see all these women suffering with their men going around hurting them, day after day, and no one is there to get their rights for them. We need to have a better social services program to help those women. Or at least we need to have family physicians who would indulge more with their patients, and to somehow take a role in helping them somehow, either by support, or at least by finding someone for them who can help solve their problems and reclaim their rights.

I had a long discussion with one of the docs today. I told him about having a group where these ladies can come in and talk about their problems. I think it helps when a lot of people who suffer from something common, to get together and talk about it. There's no one better to understand than someone who's been in their shoes. It might not solve their problems, but seeing that there are others who also suffer, would give them some kind of security that their not the only ones, and maybe hearing a story of a lady who went ahead and did something about it, would somehow give them the courage to stand up and speak up their minds.

I wish I could make this happen.

P.s, I'm not trying to bash men here. I know that there are a lot of great men out there who have every respect for women, but neverthelss, there are many sadly who look at women as objects rather than equal human beings.

Posted by Noors at 5:41 PM