This infuriates me to no end, the condescension and being treated differently.

There have been many instances of this over the years but the one most recently, a minor example: I see the same GP as my father does; we are both very personable people. He is on a first name basis with this doc, manages to get whatever he goes in for, immediate response with returning his phone calls, and meds refilled immediately as well, etc. I always have to go in, days before call is returned or meds refilled, and he speaks to me as if I am a child.

I know in dealing w/ docs I am also not taken as seriously b/c of the BP (which also grinds me, I am still human after all; it's just an illness like diabetes or high blood pressure), so how I am treated is not just b/c I am female but I have seen so much of this when was working in the hospital first hand. Physicians talking with other patients and how they spoke to their female patients vs. the male ones. It makes me always think back to ages ago; the old beliefs that our insides are different, we are still delicate, too tempermental, and must be treated with extra care. Have we not really moved past this? Arghhh.