Women: your pelvic parts have been branded by men. There, you’ll find the names of long-dead male anatomists – like Gabriel Falloppio of fallopian tube fame, James Douglas, whose eponymous pouch lies behind the uterus, and Caspar Bartholin, whose name endures in glands by the labia. It’s a land grab reminiscent of men who planted flags on mountains climbed and lands conquered. This patriarchal history, though, seems, well, historical. With other eponyms consigned to dusty textbooks, and women medical school entrants outnumbering men, hasn’t change finally emerged?

Lampshaded (then averted) in Deadpool (2016). Ajax tells Wade Wilson that he could speak in euphemisms ("This may hurt", "take a deep breath", etc.), but since he's completely insensitive (both emotionally and physically) he doesn't really give a crap, so he just says what he'll actually do: torture Wade mercilessly until his mutant gene activates. Then he proceeds to do exactly that. Digimon Adventure 02: Oikawa assures Ken it won't hurt when Oikawa extracts the Dark Seed from him. Whether Oikawa believed this or not, the way Ken groans in pain, cries out to his friends for help, and finally passes out clearly proves he was wrong. For cost savings, you can change your plan at any time online in the “Settings & Account” section. If you’d like to retain your premium access and save 20%, you can opt to pay annually at the end of the trial. Carried to the point of sadism in Joanne Greenberg's I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, when five-year-old Deborah undergoes two operations for urethral cancer. She sees through all the Lies to Children and suspects they're planning to kill her. It's one of many factors that cause her to lose her mind later in life. And it's Truth in Television— happened to the author. Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, "Seeing Red": Terrance says to Mac before beating him up "This will only hurt for a second." The line becomes a Running Gag throughout the episode, and at the end is given an Ironic Echo by Bloo: "Don't worry, it'll only hurt for a week."For good or ill, we’ve come a long way since ER. When it aired in 1994, it was the first mainstream global hit to depict the medical profession with any degree of realism. Though it still had George Clooney as the hospital paediatrician so, y’know, it wasn’t literal warts and all, that’s for sure. Over in the UK, launching in the same year, but with inevitably more local – though still heartfelt – acclaim we had Cardiac Arrest. That was all warts, sliced off by the writer and former NHS doctor Jed Mercurio and placed under a brutally unforgiving microscope. He followed that up 10 years later with Bodies, a full dissection of the people, players and power structures that simultaneously support and destroy what could be the best health system in the world, adapted from his own autobiographical novel of the same name.

In a chapter titled “Sexy Research”, Bigg explains that “certain types of scientific advancement are valued more highly”. Julia Garner as Anna Delvey, left, and Anna Chlumsky as Vivian Kent in the ‘droningly repetitive’ Inventing Anna. Photograph: Nicole Rivelli/Netflix There's a sequence in Unwind where a Walking Transplant on the operating table is notified that he may feel something in his feet, but not to worry. Then, a little later, he's told that he may feel something in his legs. This proceeds far longer than you might expect. Godzilla: City on the Edge of Battle. When Haruo and Yuko are about to be forcibly assimilated by Mecha-Godzilla, Galu-gu (a more willing participant) tells them: "It only hurts in the beginning. You'll be at ease soon. Relax and surrender yourself." No More Games. No More Bombs. No More Walking. No More Fun. No More Swimming. 67. That is 17 years past 50. 17 more than I needed or wanted. Boring. I am always bitchy. No Fun - for anybody. 67. You are getting Greedy. Act your old age. Relax - This won't hurt."The Discworld novel Men at Arms has the troll retrophrenologist truthfully informing his client "This won't hurt a bit" as he readies the mallet. (Phrenology being the pseudo-science based on determining a person's mental state and personality by measuring the skull and variations thereof. Retrophrenology "works" by introducing new variations to the skull to modify said mental state and personality...) Coraline, the Other Parents tell Coraline this when they try to convince her to let them sew the buttons on her eyes. Coraline doesn't believe them for an instant. You may also opt to downgrade to Standard Digital, a robust journalistic offering that fulfils many user’s needs. Compare Standard and Premium Digital here.

She is balanced in her evidence analysis, forensic in her research. There’s a striking silence here, though: an absence of women who have been patients themselves. No interviews on hospital wards, not even Zoom calls with those enduring chronic illness. For a book that points to “the power of listening to women”, this compounds their invisibility. Like the book, This Is Going to Hurt is full of images and scenes that you’ll hope to forget, but, more unexpectedly, it also retains the two most difficult aspects of the book (and those, incidentally, that remain with the reader long after the foreign-objects-up-orifices anecdotage has faded). N°1 in Artemis Fowl mentions that one of his spells "might hurt a bit". Holly, who is about to receive said spell, immediately lampshades the trope to herself. In Castle Hangnail, the minions recall that the Mad Scientist who used to live in the castle often said things like this to his test subjects, and it usually wasn't true. In the original series, Ben defeats a cyborg Rojo by merging with her as Upgrade and says, "This won't hurt a bit" before adding, "Okay, I lied".This is intensified by bias that characterises women as overly anxious. One 39-year-old (not mentioned by Bigg) told The Brain Tumour Charity she was repeatedly sent away with “antidepressants, sleep charts”, etc: “One of the GPs I saw actually made fun of me, saying what did I think my headaches were, a brain tumour?” Bigg hopes patients will draw upon her book to “validate their experience”. As long as those long-dead male anatomists are stamped across women’s bodies, a willing audience may do just that.