• wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
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    4 hours ago

    I was paranoid once in my early twenties so I asked a doctor to check my bum for cancer (I didn’t know much about it at the time other than that it’s a thing that people do and apparently it’s nothing to be ashamed of, but I was also a bit of a hypochondriac).

    Well she probably thought I was too young for that and just being a weirdo, cause she made it HURT as badly as she could, and I’ve had a thing about avoiding doctors ever since.

    • shrugs@piefed.social
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      4 hours ago

      one more example of “useless tests are bad”. unfortunately there are no statistics for this kind of harm. see my other comment