Oh geez, I hope Jen’s friend wins her malpractice suit.
I get punchline is fictional, but potentially painful procedures always ask if anesthetics are possible.
Anesthetics for IUD insertion are very rarely offered, and often refused if requested
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/well/live/guidelines-iud-insertion-pain-management.html
It’s insane to me that this just now came out
Soft paywall, anyone got an archived link or something?
Thanks!
Sometimes this community will have the article
Confirmed. IUD without anaesthetic had me halfway up the table.
Uhm. A bit slow today. The joke is that he should have asked if they wanted an anesthetic before doing all the painful stuff, not after, right?
And at the very least the moment he noticed she was in pain. This also against a backdrop of doctors long believing women had higher pain tolerance.
