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Prejudice about recommending bowel surgery to schizophrenics

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fiona51388
fiona51388

I am in something of a quandry, I read on google that while there are about 100 operations available for prolapse, just one operation doesn't often do the trick, and two can be more successful, statistically.  However I have a problem in that the Consultant is unwilling to send me for a second op, even though this might put things right, as she has latched onto the fact that I am a schizophrenic and is taking a biased approach and trying to tell me that my symptoms are "behavioural" despite my frequent protestations that they are simply not and I am responding to a purely biological need to open my bowels, way to frequently.  I have put up with these prejudices for over four years, what do i do?

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  • fiona51388
    fiona51388

    Posted

    It is pointless telling me to get a second opinion as I already have as the last one had prejudices just the same and was just as bad.
    • fiona51388
      fiona51388

      Posted

      Well, from the lack of response it seems everyone else has been silenced on the subject of prejudice in rank and file medicine?
    • fiona51388
      fiona51388

      Posted

      However I KNOW it hasn't only happened to me from talking to other patients and what my common sense screams at me about the facts of life
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