Alaina Urquhart

You know, like that scientist, when you're taken away from the radiation, usually your body can heal itself.

But others had more complicated problems like bone deterioration.

Some girls took their concerns straight to their regular doctors.

But because radiation poisoning and radiation burns were so uncommon, their symptoms and injuries were like mostly misdiagnosed as other things.

Mm-hmm.

Others who went to their managers or company doctors were just ignored.

Or worse, they would just, the company doctors or managers would just misdiagnose them with sexually transmitted diseases.

Are you kidding me?

To smear the reputations of the women.

Knowing full well what was actually happening.

Yep.

And they would do this to smear the reputations of them to discourage them from disclosing their symptoms to anyone else.

Because if you're being told by your company doctor, you have a sexually transmitted disease in the 1920s.

Oh, my God.

And he's going to be like, go right ahead.

Go talk to your doctor about it.

Like, you're not going to tell anyone else.

You're going to be, you're being shamed at that point.

That's so fucking evil.

Yep.