Julia Garner as Anna Delvey, left, and Anna Chlumsky as Vivian Kent in the ‘droningly repetitive’ Inventing Anna. Photograph: Nicole Rivelli/Netflix 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...) Definitely Truth in Television, as anyone knows who has been to the dentist, note There even is an expression in French, "to lie like a teethripper", presumably based on it although it is increasingly averted as anesthesia gets better and starts to get used more widely. This is also a commonly-used phrase when children who are Afraid of Needles are involved. 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." 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.

Doc McStuffins: The whole clinic staff uttered this exact phrase to an uneasy Niles while trying to get his bandages off. Of course, Niles was expecting it to hurt. Inverted in that they proceeded to carefully take off most of the bandages while Niles wasn't paying attention, so he naturally felt nothing when Doc told him it was time to take them off and pulled a little piece of bandage still on him. If the medical profession is rife with impostor syndrome, then Chloe, the six-part BBC One thriller created, written and directed by Alice Seabright ( Sex Education), is about embracing the fraud within in a social media-addled world where the heavily curated onscreen life is king. Beautifully averted in Hook, where Hook is about to pierce Peter's son's ear and tells him 'Brace yourself, lad, because this is REALLY going to hurt.' 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? 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?”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. In a chapter titled “Sexy Research”, Bigg explains that “certain types of scientific advancement are valued more highly”.

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). The result is graphically reminiscent of Jed Mercurio’s Bodies, but this time from the perspective of an unintentional bad guy who also does good… it’s complicated. The tone chops so violently between light and shade that sometimes it forgets to take the viewer with it, but Whishaw effectively embodies the bloodshot-eyed desperation of a macho-hours work culture where every slip can mean life or death. D.Gray-Man (anime) averts this with Komui telling Allen, "When I get done with you, you'll be good as new. Though I must warn you, this will be traumatic." In Cube Zero, the Cube surgeon at the end falsely assures Wynn that he won't feel anything of the lobotomy they're going to give him. The first thing Wynn does when they cut into his brain is to scream out in terror. 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.

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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.

A valuable sociological perspective on women’s bodies and health and an even more valuable (and optimistic) view of a better future for all.’ GINA RIPPON In the Batman Beyond episode "Meltdown", Dr. Lake tells Mr. Freeze "You may feel some momentary discomfort" during the procedure to transfer his mind from his head (all that remains of him) to a new cloned body. After being betrayed by Lake, Freeze retaliates, using the same line just before freezing her. 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. An RNA-based COVID vaccine is more exhilarating than a system to distribute it, for instance. Meanwhile, debilitating pelvic pain or heavy menstrual bleeding are disregarded. We should look beyond short-term silver bullet solutions, she argues. For example, pregnant women receiving continuity of care from a midwife they know are 24 per cent less likely to experience preterm birth and 16 per cent less likely to lose their baby. “Perhaps it is time for a Nobel Prize for social, rather than scientific, innovation in medical research.” Zurg: [as the noise of the operating machine reaches a peak] Did I mention the operation will be excruciatingly painful?When someone does something painful to someone else for any reason, they sometimes tell them that it won't hurt at all. This often turns out to be a blatant lie. In Ender's Game, Ender is told "it won't hurt a bit" to have his monitor taken out, but Ender knows that adults say that when it is going to hurt. 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. Goosebumps has " Don't Go to Sleep!" see main character, Matt, jumping from body to body (and reality to reality) every time he falls asleep. Eventually he is captured by the reality police and is told he will have to drink a potion that will return everything to normal, but also kill him. Officer Lacy tells him that he should try to relax, it's just like going to sleep. It won't hurt.

Carrigan Crittenden: [stalking after Dibs, carrying a huge battle axe] Damn it, Dibs! This won't hurt a bit! 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." Those weren't exactly his last words - he lived for four more days after writing them and then, in his 'fortified compound' at Owl Farm, Woody Creek, Colorado, shot himself in the head.

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." This book is about all the ways medicine is not gender-neutral, from research to treatment to diagnosis. Throughout history, flawed mindsets have paved the way for sub-par treatment, and the prevailing attitudes that still exist today have had terrible repercussions for women and their bodies. Inverted in Creepshow, when Jordy Verrill dreams of what will happen if he goes to the doctor about the growth on his fingers. The doctor tells him the fingers will have to come off, then opens up a steam sterilizer and takes out a meat cleaver. "This is going to be extremely painful, Mr. Verrill," he says. 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.