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If PCOS Was Called PMOS Decades Ago, Would That White Straight Male Doctor Have Cared?
The year was likely 2013 when I entered an examination room at a local walk-in clinic in North Bay, Ontario. I had naïvely assumed that since the doctor working that evening regularly referred his clients to me for mental health therapy at the North Bay Regional Health Centre's Mental Health Clinic, I would be treated with a basic level of respect. Upon entering the examination room, he 1st felt the need to tell me that this was a poor use of the walk-in clinic as if I only wanted contraception, I should have gone to Public Health.
