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Woman exposes difficulty obtaining a certificate due to pregnancy pains
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Check out what happened to pregnant Jill at a clinic in the United States:
Nurse refused to give a certificate to the pregnant woman
At a pregnancy clinic in Philadelphia, a woman named Jill posted a video on TikTok showing a nurse arguing with her about a doctor's note. In the videos, she explained what happened before the recorded interaction.
She had gone to the clinic to get a certificate to excuse her from work for the last two months of her pregnancy, as she was in a lot of pain and this made her work difficult.
When she started to describe the pain to the nurse, she was stopped and had her cervix examined "very aggressively". The nurse refused to give a certificate, so she asked to speak to a doctor.
She was later taken to speak with one over the phone.
“Please don't take her into my office,” Jill claims the nurse said. “Nobody wants to go to your office,” she replied.
Then, surprisingly, the nurse called the police, saying that she felt "threatened". The police eventually intervened and Jill got the medical certificate. But that was when the nurse walked into the clinic lobby to confront her. Jill started recording.
In the recordings, the nurse scolds Jill for getting pregnant and not wanting to work. She said that, according to her examination, the pregnant woman did not deserve the certificate.
Jill confronts her: "Do you know how my body feels?" Jill turns the camera to show the nurse's face and she tries to cover it with a notebook and ends up hitting Jill.
medical racism
Many see the situation as yet another example of racism in the medical industry. Jill's attorney, Briana Lynn Pearson, described the nurse's treatment of Jill in an email to The Philadelphia Enquirer.
“Jill, an African-American woman, came to the Philadelphia Pregnancy Center seven months pregnant with pain, seeking medical care and was met with abuse, neglect, and discriminatory treatment because she was black,” wrote Pearson.
Some people in the comments supported the idea that Jill was treated differently because of her race. “This is the true face of the medical system in this country! With or without health insurance, all they see is skin tone,” wrote one person.
The pregnancy clinic released a statement on its website saying it will conduct a review to resolve the issue. problem and ensure that their nurses treat patients “in a medically and socially appropriate manner” in the future.