Not really - if a woman came in with a gunshot wound, she’d be asked if she was pregnant. Why? Because she’d need a CT scan or an X-ray, which are ionizing radiation and have a risk for a foetus. She’d need a scan or x-ray to ensure there was no shrapnel in the would before closure even if superficial, and to assess for damage to vessels or bone etc if deep wound.
It’s a standard question that any women would recognise from trips to the emergency room. It’s pretty ineffective as a punchline if the cartoonist is trying to make the point you say they’re making.
Instead it just makes the woman in the cartoon appear dumb/ignorant which totally undermines the message it’s purportedly trying to put across. She is giving a fed up or even patronising look over something that would be essential question in any hospital.
Not really - if a woman came in with a gunshot wound, she’d be asked if she was pregnant. Why? Because she’d need a CT scan or an X-ray, which are ionizing radiation and have a risk for a foetus.
Pretty sure immediate blood loss from a bullet wound trumps hypothetical risks of an x-ray.
Edit: To quote the health department of the state next to me…
Most radiation exposure during medical testing is unlikely to harm a developing baby. Testing is only done if the risk to you or your baby is greater than not doing the test. The ‘risk’ is the increased chance of your unborn baby getting a cancer during their childhood.
I love how a 4 panel comic about dismissal of women’s medical concerns is getting multiple commentors who want to dismiss those problems because a 4 panel comic doesn’t explicitly go into the a specific nuance they are focused on. Plenty of people get the punchline just fine without it.
I imagine they’d want to give her something for the pain, and potential pregnancy might be a factor? I don’t know, I’m not a doctor, and this is a comic.
Not really - if a woman came in with a gunshot wound, she’d be asked if she was pregnant. Why? Because she’d need a CT scan or an X-ray, which are ionizing radiation and have a risk for a foetus. She’d need a scan or x-ray to ensure there was no shrapnel in the would before closure even if superficial, and to assess for damage to vessels or bone etc if deep wound.
It’s a standard question that any women would recognise from trips to the emergency room. It’s pretty ineffective as a punchline if the cartoonist is trying to make the point you say they’re making.
Instead it just makes the woman in the cartoon appear dumb/ignorant which totally undermines the message it’s purportedly trying to put across. She is giving a fed up or even patronising look over something that would be essential question in any hospital.
Pretty sure immediate blood loss from a bullet wound trumps hypothetical risks of an x-ray.
Edit: To quote the health department of the state next to me…
I love how a 4 panel comic about dismissal of women’s medical concerns is getting multiple commentors who want to dismiss those problems because a 4 panel comic doesn’t explicitly go into the a specific nuance they are focused on. Plenty of people get the punchline just fine without it.
It’s not a 4 panel comic, It’s an 8 panel comic that tried using the extra panels for extra context, but only fucked it up.
If you need to lie or exaggerate to make your point, you’ve already lost.
Nobody is dismissing the problem. They’re saying the comic doesn’t represent the problem. It’s malformed commentary, not wrong commentary.
I don’t even think it’s intended to be about that. I don’t think it’s that deep.
I think it’s just, “they always ask this question, no matter what.”
I thought bandaging the wound would be the first step, stop the bleeding and all that. Not sure how pregnancy would figure into first aid.
I imagine they’d want to give her something for the pain, and potential pregnancy might be a factor? I don’t know, I’m not a doctor, and this is a comic.
For example, give a pregnant woman Tylenol and boom, autistic baby.
But seriously, as far as I know, your comment is accurate, a lot of treatment options change when a fetus might be in the situation.
If a doctor decided to neglect that possibility and harms a fetus no one was aware of, might get hit with malpractice.
Also I know lab results might depend on either the possibility of pregnancy, or just timing of the period itself.
There is stuff we know fucks with the baby, like thalidomide. No need to throw dubious claims of autism into the mix.
That part was intended as a joke, hence the ‘but seriously’
Sad to say, such nuanced takes don’t belong on lemmy. That shit is like a lemmy repellant.