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[–] AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 40 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 48 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Anesthetics for IUD insertion are very rarely offered, and often refused if requested

[–] piefood@feddit.online 32 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Soft paywall, anyone got an archived link or something?

[–] AtariDump@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Sometimes this community will have the article

https://lemmy.world/c/nyt_gift_articles@sopuli.xyz

[–] SunshineJogger@feddit.org 22 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

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?

[–] Vincent@feddit.nl 25 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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.

[–] BastingChemina@slrpnk.net 19 points 1 day ago

I think it's more that the doctor was struggling to insert it, so he offer the local anesthetic only to make his job easier.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah. For some reason, despite all the women telling them it hurts, doctors typically believed the sales critters when they said the procedure is completely painless.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Well, if someone who controls his paycheck said that, what choice fid he have really? Because as we slready know, money is more important than people!

[–] Doubleohdonut@lemmy.ca 23 points 1 day ago

Confirmed. IUD without anaesthetic had me halfway up the table.