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Women and medicine: unconscious bias

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Ekphrasis · 01/06/2018 10:06

Quite literally the story of my medical history, that of my sister and my elderly Aunt that I know of to name those closest to me.

www.bbc.com/future/story/20180523-how-gender-bias-affects-your-healthcare?ocid=ww.social.link.facebook

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Elendon · 01/06/2018 10:21

Good link and essential reading for everyone.

Here's a link to the book:

www.amazon.co.uk/Doing-Harm-Medicine-Dismissed-Misdiagnosed/dp/0062470809?tag=mumsnetforum-21

My Prolactinoma was mis diagnosed at first and when the symptoms didn't go (after a disastrous course of fertility pills that I had to stop after a week), I went to another doctor who quickly recognised what the cause of my periods stopping might be and he was right. I was recommended to go to him by a friend. Thankfully, excretion of prolactin dropped in my late 20s and I was able to have children without the need for medication.

MistAmougstElephants · 01/06/2018 10:13

Thanks for posting. So pleased this is getting some time on the BBC. To many women are failed by the healthcare system and so many people are ablivious to it.

Sorry for everything you had to go through to be taken seriously Ek Flowers

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