I think it is because if they tell what type and stage they have people will speculate at their chances. Catherine has very small children who she has to protect. Maybe they will tell it someday ....
Well said and I completely agree. Just because we live in age where every bowel movement is documented by certain "celebrities" it doesn't mean to say that the Royals are public property in terms of the nature of their illnesses. We all have a right to patient confidentiality after all.No one has any right to know the specifics of anyone else’s medical diagnosis or treatments.
Sadly, royals aside, It’s the life of a disabled person every day. There is an expectation that visibly disabled people have to tell others their life story.
People may joke “what’s happened to you then” when you are a wheelchair user and they demand to know what’s wrong with you. The information makes no difference to you, you use it for a pity party or to make your life feel better (there’s someone worse off than you).
It happens regularly to my family member who is a wheelchair user. On holiday once, a woman shouted across the restaurant “what’s wrong with him” - none of your bloody business mate.
It’s right they haven’t shared the type of cancer. It’s none of our business, just because they are public figures we don’t have an automatic right to know. We have a right to understand if they are unwell or working / not working, but the specifics, nope.
I love this post- you hit the nail on the head- It’s disgusting people feel they are entitled to get answers about other people’s health- one of my friends has a little lad with a rare syndrome he is a wheelchair user - in restaurants, shops etc she has been approached and asked “ what’s wrong with him” she has on occasion said he has whatever the syndrome is/ she gets answers like “ he might grow out of it” and he gets patted on the head like a dog - for a while she stopped going out - but now if she gets asked what is wrong with him she answersNo one has any right to know the specifics of anyone else’s medical diagnosis or treatments.
Sadly, royals aside, It’s the life of a disabled person every day. There is an expectation that visibly disabled people have to tell others their life story.
People may joke “what’s happened to you then” when you are a wheelchair user and they demand to know what’s wrong with you. The information makes no difference to you, you use it for a pity party or to make your life feel better (there’s someone worse off than you).
It happens regularly to my family member who is a wheelchair user. On holiday once, a woman shouted across the restaurant “what’s wrong with him” - none of your bloody business mate.
It’s right they haven’t shared the type of cancer. It’s none of our business, just because they are public figures we don’t have an automatic right to know. We have a right to understand if they are unwell or working / not working, but the specifics, nope.
can you IMAGINE that in your local pharmacy over here?!! People, myself included, tend to whisper to the staff at the counter or talk out of the side of their mouths in case anyone hears whats wrong with them. No wonder we have a reputation for being buttoned up!I think it is a cultural thing. In Spain, it is completely normal for complete strangers to ask you in the pharmacy what prescription you are waiting in the queue for, what is wrong with you, and then discuss ad nauseum with all the other strangers in the queue what their random relatives or neighbours were prescribed for any similar (or even completely different!) ailments, and what better meds/herbal treatments/old wives' tales etc there are for you to try! Very trying for somebody unused to such public interrogations.
I was embarrassed when the pharmacist asked me what type of cough I had. I whispered back "I have phlegm".can you IMAGINE that in your local pharmacy over here?!! People, myself included, tend to whisper to the staff at the counter or talk out of the side of their mouths in case anyone hears whats wrong with them. No wonder we have a reputation for being buttoned up!
When friend was pregnant for the first time, she was scared to go into town because she was accosted by random old ladies just touching her bump with no warning and telling her it was definitely a boy … or a girl. Being chased round Woolworths by a particularly tenacious one was an experience.We out do each other where I live.. it’s like the four Yorkshire men skit from Monty Python… Love it..
The pharmacy attached to my GP surgery have no discretion whatsoever. In waiting room the other week, pharmacist approaches a young woman waiting for a prescription and asks her if she can remember what brand of contraceptive she usually has! No sense that someone's medication is confidential. Same when they make you say your address in full ear shot of everyone.can you IMAGINE that in your local pharmacy over here?!! People, myself included, tend to whisper to the staff at the counter or talk out of the side of their mouths in case anyone hears whats wrong with them. No wonder we have a reputation for being buttoned up!
I'm from Spain and I've never seen this. Perhaps it's a regional thing?I think it is a cultural thing. In Spain, it is completely normal for complete strangers to ask you in the pharmacy what prescription you are waiting in the queue for, what is wrong with you, and then discuss ad nauseum with all the other strangers in the queue what their random relatives or neighbours were prescribed for any similar (or even completely different!) ailments, and what better meds/herbal treatments/old wives' tales etc there are for you to try! Very trying for somebody unused to such public interrogations.
Andalucía.I'm from Spain and I've never seen this. Perhaps it's a regional thing?
I have all of mine. Just put a request in and they send them you. I have paper records and discs with my MRI on. Takes a few weeks but easy enough to do. Or you can ask to go in and view them.I had an Andalusian colleague who was able to obtain her x-rays and mri scans to keep
Not something we ever get to see as patients here in the NHSprobably a good thing to keep our records safer from prying eyes and commentary 🥲
I got to keep my scans from a very dodgy ankle sprain decades ago in AusI had an Andalusian colleague who was able to obtain her x-rays and mri scans to keep
Not something we ever get to see as patients here in the NHSprobably a good thing to keep our records safer from prying eyes and commentary 🥲
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