People lie to doctors near fucking constantly. They’re required to ask the questions no matter what due to things like malpractice, the insurance company that owns the hospital and other stupid s***.
So not only are they required to ask you, they’re also likely required to give you the test regardless of your answer. Because they have to assume you’re lying.
It’s not personal. How many idiots have lied, been ignorant, or didn’t think it was important and caused a lot of trouble in the process?
Ex: in free clinics that specialize in sexually active gay men, they don’t ask if you take street drugs, they ask if you’ve ever taken Viagra without a prescription. Stimulants cause impotence.
If you aren’t going to believe me anyway just give me the damn test and don’t bother me with the question.
It’s not about not believing you, it’s about the fact that it’s possible for people to be pregnant without realizing it, and the doctors obviously don’t know you personally.
The reason they ask at all is because if you say yes, then they don’t bother giving you the test. They were always planning to give you the test if you say anything but “yes”, to cover all their asses against lawsuits bases.
Not familiar with other healthcare but single payer here in Canada, the CT scan(for example) will not happen if there’s no negative bloodwork pregnancy test or if they are certain you don’t have a uterus. All child bearing women are all pregnant unless bloodwork says no or your uterus was surgically removed.
Went to the ER a few years ago; they asked if I was pregnant and I said no as I had been dating another cis woman for the 4 years prior.
They still gave me a pregnancy test.
If you aren’t going to believe me anyway just give me the damn test and don’t bother me with the question.
“Everyone lies” - Doctor Gregory House.
“The patient told you that, and you believe them? You’re an idiot!” - Also Doctor Gregory House.
People lie to doctors near fucking constantly. They’re required to ask the questions no matter what due to things like malpractice, the insurance company that owns the hospital and other stupid s***.
So not only are they required to ask you, they’re also likely required to give you the test regardless of your answer. Because they have to assume you’re lying.
It’s not personal. How many idiots have lied, been ignorant, or didn’t think it was important and caused a lot of trouble in the process?
Ex: in free clinics that specialize in sexually active gay men, they don’t ask if you take street drugs, they ask if you’ve ever taken Viagra without a prescription. Stimulants cause impotence.
It’s not about not believing you, it’s about the fact that it’s possible for people to be pregnant without realizing it, and the doctors obviously don’t know you personally.
The reason they ask at all is because if you say yes, then they don’t bother giving you the test. They were always planning to give you the test if you say anything but “yes”, to cover all their
asses against lawsuitsbases.Tests will also miss some pregnancies. Routinely asking and testing will have the fewest false negatives.
Willing to bet if they’d do it otherwise then it’s the insurance companies determining policy here to save cost.
Not familiar with other healthcare but single payer here in Canada, the CT scan(for example) will not happen if there’s no negative bloodwork pregnancy test or if they are certain you don’t have a uterus. All child bearing women are all pregnant unless bloodwork says no or your uterus was surgically removed.