'Some clinicians have an "ingrained belief" that women-particularly those from ethnic minority groups-exaggerate their symptoms, meaning conditions are left undiagnosed...'
#BiasInHealthcare #EquitableCare #MedSky
#BiasInHealthcare #EquitableCare #MedSky
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Trisha Elliott
From this week’s @bmj.com, we learn that:
“Drs are too often dismissive of women’s symptoms when they present for treatment for reproductive health conditions such as endometriosis, adenomyosis, and heavy menstrual bleeding”
Shoutout to @drrageshri.bsky.social.
Link: www.bmj.com/content/387/...
“Drs are too often dismissive of women’s symptoms when they present for treatment for reproductive health conditions such as endometriosis, adenomyosis, and heavy menstrual bleeding”
Shoutout to @drrageshri.bsky.social.
Link: www.bmj.com/content/387/...
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Also, stop working on your new careers as cops or lawyers on my time.
As no doctor really treats orthopaedic disease because there is no treatment & they refuse to treat pain appropriately, there's really no good reason for me to see or trust any of these creatures...for anything, is there?
I'd love to say things are better now but sadly studies show that women's voices are still not being heard, add in a different ethnicity and things are even worse.