WTF Moments: rebelling against the medical patriarchy
<p>I never thought I’d lead a rebellion on a hospital ward.</p>
<p>It’s shit being in hospital. Hospital food is the least of it. Being woken in the middle of the night to have your blood pressure taken. No real privacy. No time alone. Noise, smells, painful interruptions 24 hours a day. Having to wait in your bay for a consultant to reach your bed, on their schedule, with no indication of whether you’ll wait 16 minutes or 6 hours.</p>
<h1>Medicine and the Patriarchy</h1>
<p>Where does the patriarchal set-up of UK hospitals originate? The (male, white) General Practitioners who ran cottage hospitals up until the creation of the NHS? The church- (i.e. male-) run institutions of the middle ages?</p>
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