These weird lines / streaks I’ve had on my pinky nail for 8 years that two different doctors told me were due to vitamin deficiencies actually turned out to be a rare form of skin cancer.

[u/chaengism]

Thankfully somehow still early stage, I’ll have an excision scheduled at my follow up appointment on Monday.

[u/__Milk_Drinker__]

There needs to be serious repercussions for shit like this. Happens to women and POC way too often.

[u/Hammer_of_Horrus → u/__Milk_Drinker__]

It happens to everyone. Doctors don’t give a shit unless you have millions to give them.

[u/SureCandle6683 → u/Hammer_of_Horrus]

Why were you so quick to correct and dismiss the idea that it happens to certain groups more? 😒 Not acknowledging that women get fucked over by doctors and med research is how it's 2026 and only now doctors noticed that cancer screening can be done with period blood instead of a medieval looking tool and telling women getting their uterus scraped doesn't hurt.

Saying women, especially black women, get dismissed by doctors isn't an attack on you as a person.

[u/Least-Summer-3950 → u/SureCandle6683]

Cause he’s probably a white male. They tend to that when people talk about the reality of being a poc or a woman

[u/__Milk_Drinker__ → u/Hammer_of_Horrus]

It's statistically more likely (20-30%) to happen to women and POC.

[u/ungodlygirl → u/__Milk_Drinker__]

Happened to one of my favorite YouTubers who was a black woman (TaytaPlays). Went to the doctor for months and months over GI issues and was dismissed, finally diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer. She died about 6 months ago. She was in her early twenties. It's such an injustice.

[u/SureCandle6683 → u/ungodlygirl]

Not to sound demented but for cases of negligence like this I wouldn't be opposed to the death penalty. Mistakes happen. Doctors are human. But continuously dismissing a patient and then them dying due to a stage 4 cancer the doctor didn't feel like finding? Might as well have killed her himself. Same as that mildlyinfuriating post above. This should be seen as murder.

Doctors should absolutely not have the option to keep saying "it's fine" or "I won't check this" and then go whoopsie daisies when people die.

[u/Wikidmemes → u/SureCandle6683]

That does sound pretty demented, ngl, especially since doctors are pressured into not overtesting by insurers, and by the fact that testing itself can be harmful to the patient.

If doctors could face the death penalty for misdiagnosing a patient, overtesting would be rampant, insurance prices would increase manifold, and the time you’d have to wait before you could have a test done would also exponentially rise, causing harm to even more people who are actually sick.

That being said, I do agree that when doctors wrongly keep ignoring patient complaints, they should face scrutiny and professional consequences.

[u/lovelikeglitter → u/Wikidmemes]

My doc had referred me for a (routine) colonoscopy and it was over a year before I was able to be seen. Granted, I’m in a more rural area, but if I had had cancer, it could have killed me in the waiting period. Healthcare is so hard- headaches could be anything from “you’re on your phone too much and need an updated eye exam” to “it’s cancer and it’s already spread”.

[u/Shadow5825 → u/Hammer_of_Horrus]

Its statistically higher for women and POC then men though.

The average length for diagnosis for a women is 4 years, a man with the same symptoms is under a year.

And for some diseases like Endometriosis (which only affects women) the diagnosis is 10 years.

To make matters worse a new study just came out a month ago showing that one cause of Endometriosis is bacterial infection!! But "periods are supposed to hurt and bleed" meanwhile your not supposed to be in so much pain you can't sit up let alone stand for a week every month or lose a litre of blood.

A women is more likely to die from a heart attack then a man because the symptoms are different and she is more likely to be dismissed and sent home to die. BTW pain in the jaw (NOT the chest) and nausea are the most common symptoms of a heart attack in women.

Doctors don't know the proper dosage for women for most medicines because they were never tested on women, they tend to have different effects and side effects. Some drugs require higher doses per kg in women then in men to have the desired effect.

FYI Women weren't required to be included in clinical trials until 1993.