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I've really started fucking around with my answer too this.
It's been awhile. Honestly can't remember. Period? What's that? Hmmm, maybe I'm pregnant? Did you read my chart? Yesterday.
All answers I've genuinely given at this point.
It's your life, but being cagey about giving information to your doctor seems like a bad idea. They have reasons for asking questions like this. If they are also rude or unwilling to help you, you should find a different doctor.
This was all to different doctors. Urologist, dermatologist, breast exam, gp... the point is my chart says I'm amab. If you ask me this question you clearly didn't even bother to read passed my name. I regret nothing.
"Did you read my chart?"
From my IT troubleshooting perspective, I've noted that many things my doc asks are for a sanity check on their part. Same reason I may ask "dumb" questions of an end user.
Only had one doc in life who could see me once a year and remember who I was, what my issues were, etc. That's damned unusual.
Also sometimes there is wrong information written in the files, or something vital missing, so asking minimizes the risks. For example I have an allergy to a certain medicine, and it has been written in the systems like five times, but still it does not always show up. Once I got the wrong stuff straight to my veins in the hospital, since they started it as IV, before they had time to ask me the basic questions (I had very high fever). Luckily it is not a deadly allergy, and they did ask soon, so the consequences were minor. Imagine something like that, but with something deadly.
Now, this has naught to do with the comic's point - how women are not taken seriously by doctors. How they are seen just as walking incubators, how doctors sometimes only care, will the woman still be able to have children, how women's pain is dismissed, how tearing and other after birth issues are brushed off and not treated, and how there still is barely any medical research, that includes women as test subjects. The list goes on.
Same! I've put penicillin allergy on every intake form since I became an adult. Woke up from wisdom teeth surgery at home in bed. My gf was hovering over me and gave me the antibiotics.
"What was that?"
"Penicillin."
Anyway, it did nothing to me so I quit listing it as an allergy. Got an all-time worst strep infection, got maddening hives from penicillin. Took it again, nothing.