Chapter 7 woman and medicine

After our "Small Troop" delegation of writers wrapped up their visit to Canada, I decided to stay in Vancouver for two extra days in order to complete an anticipated interview about the lives of women in North America.But only two days, how to touch this "belongs to half the world" problem?A friend from the Canadian Chinese Writers Association found an organization about "Women's Self-Care" in the phone book, and she suggested that I check out that organization.women's health?I hesitate.I thought that this "health care" organization could only provide medical questions.I don't understand medicine.Never cared about medical issues.But a Canadian friend said: "Whether there is awareness of self-care is a very important part of women's issues. For example, helping women fight for abortion rights is the work of this organization." I no longer hesitate, and I am no longer self-righteous.

The Women's Health Organization was housed in a small apartment building on a quiet street.There are three big rooms in their office, and the layout is very special. There is a large and eye-catching wall hanging on the wall. The pattern of the entire tapestry is a lying woman, and she is lying upright. The woman is wearing a red flower printed dress. She was wearing a green cloth shirt with her lower body naked, her face was lowered slantedly, her thick black hair covered her face, she was lying relaxed, holding a thick flashlight in her right hand... Obviously, the woman in this pattern is Checking my own body... As soon as I entered the door, this wall hanging rushed towards me, and it showed the purpose of the three offices with the finishing touch.The interpreter and I talked to them on the phone and we have an appointment, so they have arranged for someone to wait for us.

We were greeted by a fat woman named Maca, wearing a fat round-neck advertising shirt. In the advertisement, a monster with the head of a bull and a human body was painted, which almost occupied Maca's entire chest.I can't understand the English in the advertisement, so I don't understand why she is promoting it.And this pure white advertising shirt didn't help Makayan's strengths and weaknesses, but made her round, like a white bucket.Although you can often see women who are as fat as barrels on the streets of Vancouver, but when I came to interview such a women's organization, I always felt that all the women working here must be capable and capable.After we sat down and talked, my Canadian friend started to translate, and I found out that Maca used to work in Toronto as a doctor of medicine. Her doctoral dissertation "Medicine and Women" unconventionally raised a question that many people are not aware of: neither is medical science Purely objective, especially gynecological treatment and clinical treatment, basically view women's physical diseases from the perspective of men, but do not really consider women's physiology and psychology from the perspective of women themselves!Listening to Maca's explanation, I immediately cheered up and was excited by the blockbuster remarks made by this ordinary woman.From the standpoint of women, questioning the world of men from a medical point of view is indeed fresh and sharp.But I immediately had a feeling that her doctoral dissertation would not get much affirmation or high evaluation.Sure enough, I didn't expect it.She told me that after she read out her doctoral dissertation, the atmosphere was very dull, because among the professors present, there was only one female professor, and the others were all men. They disagreed with her point of view. They believed that science cannot contain social prejudice, while medicine There is absolutely no "man's position" in the research.Her unconventional views made her one of the absolute minority, and even after leaving school to work, she still felt isolated and depressed.But she never gave up her own research, and never succumbed to traditional forces.She resolutely quit her job at a research institute and left Toronto.After arriving in Vancouver, she finally met the opportunity and joined this organization that specializes in "women's self-care".A happy smile appeared on Maca's red face, and she said: "I feel lucky to be able to work in this organization, to help other women with my own ideas, and to truly solve physical or psychological problems. I feel very comfortable." I asked Maca to talk more specifically, for example, which biological problems of women have been shrouded in men's views."There's the issue of abortion, and there's the issue of menopause," Maca said.

menopause! My interest grew stronger.Maca said that they have convened several seminars, and everyone's views are close. They agree that menopause is just a stage in life, and some physiological changes are normal, while some people have psychological reactions and psychological causes. Physiological abnormalities are mainly man-made.Once a woman is over forty-five years old, a kind of negative emotion will subtly cover them - because she is no longer young in the eyes of men.No more charisma, no more aggressiveness for your own work.The career is no longer progressing, and the children are growing up and no longer need them.There is no more intimate licking; when people evaluate men in their 40s and 50s, they often use complimenting words such as "the most successful, the most mature, and the most attractive".The psychological pressure and emotional depression caused by this difference in feeling will accumulate over time and become various symptoms of the so-called "menopause".The "Women's Self-Care" organization brings in local Indian women for a seminar on "menopause."Maca told me that Indian women do not have "menopause". On the one hand, they themselves know how to protect women's physiology. For example, they make a kind of herbal medicine that can delay the disappearance of menstruation; After raising children, they will get considerable respect, and they don't have the inferiority complex and nervousness that gradually hide in the subconscious after middle age.Fear, their mentality is always full.The introduction of Maca is very inspiring to me. I think this is not only a problem of "menopause", but also a problem of women's self-knowledge and self-awareness.Different understandings and different awakenings will result in different mental states and different outlooks on life.I told Maca, listening to her talk, I was educated, I admire their work, it is very important to raise women's self-care awareness, women really have to rely on their own awareness to gradually solve their own problems, from psychological to physical.After returning to China, I will not only write such an article interviewing her, but also write a novel.The idea of ​​that novel was instilled in me by her.I asked my Canadian friend to translate my words. Maca smiled happily. She loves to laugh. When she smiled, her chubby face became more rosy and she was as cute as a doll.However, she is so capable and unique.Looking at her overflowing smile, I was ashamed of my prejudice against Maca when I first entered the door.

Leaving that exquisite apartment, Maca gave me a thick stack of materials, all about women and medicine, trying to provide information for the novel that was still brewing in my head.It's a pity that the materials are all in English, so I can only understand her kindness.