Don’t go to that guy if you have endo
But even tweeting that one in ten people get endometriosis didn’t save Sefton Council from the wrath of Doctor Harrop.
Apparently they were too busy replying to angry women who were pointing out that only women get endometriosis to do what Doctor Harrop told them to do, so he summoned reenforcements.
That did it – 15 minutes later he was crowing about his knockout punch.
But women? Bah, they can get in the sea.
The flag reads: “Woman, noun, adult human female.”
And Adrian Harrop, who practices Medicine for a living, has an objection to that?
And ‘Doctor’ Adrian Harrop, practices medicine for a living in Sefton, wherever that is? (Note that I put the word ‘doctor’ in scare quotes because strictly speaking it has been misappropriated by private practitioners in the fields of medicine, dentistry, and veterinary medicine who have done no original research [the original requirement for the title],and only hold sub-doctoral degrees.) It is more than just possible that Adrian Harrop falls into that category, and so to be on the safe side, and until the contrary is shown to be true, it would be prudent to always use scare quotes around his alleged (nay, self-alleged) title of ‘Doctor’, abbreviated to ‘Dr’ with an upper case (capital) ‘d’. Never lower case.
Possibly in time other practitioners whose business it is to carry out alterations both biochemical and anatomical on people and/or animals they may choose to refer to their clients as ‘patients’ too; such as hairdressers, barbers, podiatrists, and dog washers and groomers. They are on the face of it just as entitled as Adrian Harrop to call themselves ‘doctor’, charge accordingly, and form or join a craft guild set up to lay a territorial claim to their section of the market, and to fence competitors out of it.
We are not out of the Middle Ages yet.
Funny thing, though. Most people seem to think those of us who have done original research, completed the requirements required to be called doctor, etc, but are not medical practitioners are the ones who have appropriated the term from “real” doctors. I have had to explain to people that, yes, I am a “real” doctor, and no, I can’t diagnose their skin rash (or toe fungus, or whatever other physical or mental ailment they wish to put forth).
Hello, Sefton Council? I’d like to report a misogynist hate incident.