French woman was told by doctors hantavirus symptoms were just anxiety

The Girl Who Cried Pain: A Bias against Women in the Treatment of Pain https://philpapers.org/rec/HOFTGW-3

Gender Bias and Diagnostic Delays in Young Women: A Narrative Review https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12829432/

There is a huge body of research that shows systematic downplaying, ignoring and rating women's health and pain concerns much lower than they are.

	▲	mothballed 9 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I can believe this. I know a lot of rural healthcare workers. The older farmer man type will not come in unless they're basically dying. They're taken seriously pretty much immediately in a way that would probably appear as sexist.
	▲	aaron695 7 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
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aurareturn 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I had all sorts of real physical symptoms that I spent years going to doctors for. Some of them took me seriously. Some told me it is in my head.

If I had ChatGPT, I would have solved them much earlier and lived a better life.

	▲	cybercatgurrl 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		it’s stories like these similar to mine that make me seriously hope doctors become a thing of the past eventually. there’s too much arrogance and too many gaps of knowledge in the medical field for me to believe in the reliability or integrity of the field anymore in my own personal experience

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