Hello my Clan of the Crave Bears! I’m so glad you decided to join me today. Today I’m getting real with you, so consider yourself warned. I had an experience recently that I have been waiting to share with you, so today I am taking the opportunity.
I was on Fox News a couple of weeks ago with Dr. Manny. He called my work “horse shit” to my face. Here’s what happened:
- I sat down with Dr. Manny and I immediately felt like he was not into my opinions
- I immediately tried to build rapport and I tried to even get him to laugh
- His final comment to me about cravings was, “That was very entertaining!”
- I wasn’t there to entertain, because Women’s health issues are so important to me
- After the segment, I tried to brush off his “entertaining” comment
- I even got him to agree to take a selfie with me
- After we took the selfie, he said, “Well, that was all horse shit!”
- My head was spinning - I knew he would have never said the same thing to a man
- The female producer who booked the show was shocked to hear this
- Last year I was on Dr. Oz last year and he could barely contain his eye roll
- Men believe women are weak, silly and emotional and they dismiss our true needs
- The dismissive attitudes are exactly what women face everyday
- The unexamined gender bias in medicine is killing us
- I have so many examples of women’s medical disorders being dismissed by health practitioners
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- Disrespect for women’s health concerns is rampant
Do you have a story of how you have been treated by a medical professional? I’d love to hear your story. Go to my blog at alexandrajamieson.com/blog and click on the little blue microphone on the right and leave me a message.
