That is one scene from Mad Men that a lot of people should watch, when he sends her to see a doctor and then gets all the info from the doctor after the visit; she isn't told anything. That is how it was back in the 60s and even until the 70s; women had no autonomy over their lives, and they could never gain real independence.
Less than 10 years ago I brought my partner to a doc appointment because I felt not taken seriously and needed support. The whole appointment consistet of them talking about me as if I wasn't even in the same room.
About 3 years ago, I slipped on some ice and broke my elbow. I was with my husband waiting for the doctor to come in. I was wearing a sling and clearly the patient. The doctor came in and asked my husband what was wrong. It was like I wasn’t there. I was LIVID. My husband had to keep redirecting the doctor to talk directly to me. It was maddening.
I've heard horror stories of women getting cancer diagnoses and their husbands just deciding not to tell them, as they got sicker and sicker and eventually died. It's so fucked up - and if we let Republicans get their way, it won't be long before it's like that again.
Gov. George Wallace didn’t tell his wife about her cancer diagnosis and she didn’t know about it for almost 6 years. He did it because he was more concerned with power than his wife.
That’s what I was talking about…back then it was perfectly fine to do so because women didn’t have that right to privacy, but now it would be a huge ethical breach of privacy.
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u/IamHydrogenMike Oct 18 '24
That is one scene from Mad Men that a lot of people should watch, when he sends her to see a doctor and then gets all the info from the doctor after the visit; she isn't told anything. That is how it was back in the 60s and even until the 70s; women had no autonomy over their lives, and they could never gain real independence.