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iusedtoknowwhattosay<\/a> replied to your quote<\/a>: Doctors at the Odense University Hospital…<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

I am officially ashamed to be part of the human race today. Can I opt out and claim I am an alien from outer space and distance myself completely from those humans on this planet<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I don’t think I ever told this story but here it goes.<\/p>\n

It was 2001 or 2002 and my Dutch was not very good at the time (not that it is flawless now but it was even more precarious back then). I suffered from crippling abdominal pains from time to time. It would take almost ten years to figure out why (gallbladder, which I had removed at the end of 2010). But back around 2001, I was sometimes knocked down from pain in ways I had never experienced. We are talking “me curled up on the floor” levels of pain. I went to the doctor. He couldn’t figure out what it was through an external examination so he sent me for an endoscopy test (the one where they put a tube with a camera through your mouth up to your stomach).<\/p>\n

I was told I shouldn’t eat 12 hours prior to the test. I am a grown up woman. I followed the instructions to the T. If I recall correctly, I even outdid the instructions by a few hours to be on the safe side (as in, I didn’t eat for 14 hours or so). The day of the test comes and here I am, surrounded by a doctor and three lab technicians. They were abrupt, but alas, I thought it’s part and parcel of the healthcare industry. They insert the tube down my throat. This was EXTREMELY painful. And I do not mean it lightly. The tube finds its way down my stomach and I vomited. I mean, it was as if I had eaten an hour before. A complete meal came out. Then, this doctor, had in him, while I have a tube down my throat and I am covered in my own vomit, unable to respond, to start shouting racist abuse at me: YOU FOREIGNERS ARE ALL THE SAME, IGNORANT ASSHOLES WHO CANNOT FOLLOW BASIC INSTRUCTIONS! and this went on for, at least, 10 minutes, while I wasn’t unable to say a word to defend myself. I was the “ignorant immigrant”, the “stupid foreigner”, the “reason why the medical industry was in shambles”, etc etc etc.<\/p>\n

I was alone (my partner couldn’t come with me due to working hours). I don’t remember ever feeling so vulnerable and so mistreated before. I tried to explain I hadn’t eaten in my broken Dutch to no avail. I was told the test was useless and it was all my fault because IGNORANT FOREIGNER! I walked away crying and did not seek medical attention for YEARS as a result of this incident. YEARS. I didn’t even know there was a place I could complain about this or that what happened to me warranted an investigation and a sanction for the doctor and his assistants. Luckily for me, gallbladder problems are, for the most part, non life threatening. But I lived with the condition for years until I could muster the strength to seek help about it again.<\/p>\n

For what it’s worth, my current doctor (and everyone who treated me in the hospital for surgery) were great and I have nothing but praise for them. However, I know all too well how certain people in the medical establishment treat those they deem as “inferior”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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