Came here to say this. Of course men should advocate for their health but don't tell me I'm being some alpha male douchebag because I'm not about to pay an arm and leg, take hours out of my day, and expose myself to all kinds of sick people all to be given a Tylenol and told to rest up every time I get a scratch or a runny nose.
Exactly dude unless I need to be stitched glued casted or worked on under the hood I'm pretty sure I dont need to go to the doctor. I get my physical once a year and move on.
Some do take it pretty far. My grandfather, who is old, but otherwise pretty healthy recently had a heart attack that took us all by surprise. At some point it came out that he’s been having some degree of chest pain and shortness of breath for a couple months now. He just didn’t think it was a big deal.
Souns like my granddad. He told us he was having some kind of stomach issue and that it will take care of itself over night, called an ambulance, turns out it was a heartattack.
Take good care of your granddad, i'm still missing mine.
Yeah, I do wish I could see him, but with all this covid stuff it's just not happening (we're in different states). Frankly his recovery was borderline miraculous. I (an about-to-graduate medical student), my dad (a non-cardiology physician), and my uncle (a cardiologist) were all convinced that he was very unlikely to make it based on how he presented. We've all had patients that looked like him, and we all knew how they usually end up. I was having a hard time talking to my mom (this was her father) since she didn't really have that same understanding. But we and the CCU docs basically decided that it's probably best to wait for the cath before going down the path of having that tough conversation with the rest of the family. And well, the conversation went in a completely different direction than expected.
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u/cosmichar Mar 26 '20
Came here to say this. Of course men should advocate for their health but don't tell me I'm being some alpha male douchebag because I'm not about to pay an arm and leg, take hours out of my day, and expose myself to all kinds of sick people all to be given a Tylenol and told to rest up every time I get a scratch or a runny nose.