FWIW I don’t necessarily object to the adaptation of my quote as I assumed that was the meaning the poster was aiming for and they were open about what they were doing but as a mod it is for you to give guidance.
I moderate another board, and it would be fine there. But this board takes a very strict line on modifying quotes.
My experience is that they’re more likely to think this for kids, women, and people with anxiety disorders. It’s a bias issue.
Even a hypochondriac should have tests done to rule out urgent issues. That’s what my doctor did when I went in for a possible heart attack due to chest pains. He made sure to check anything that could be an actual emergency. He’s not always the most evidence-based doctor out there, but he believes me.
I went to the doctor with a list of complaints and he told me I had hypochondria, I said “Oh, christ! not that as well”
From what I’ve read elsewhere, doctors in America tend to misdiagnose or dismiss symptoms from women and people of color. Part of that is that many of the standards were developed for adult white men.
All of your questions are YES x 10,000, and the opiate crisis has made it even worse.
People are also quick to assume that if something bad happens to a girl or woman, it was BECAUSE she was a girl or woman, and not because she happened to cross paths with the wrong people or situation, even if those bad things were done by other girls or women. (I avoided the word “female/s” on purpose.)
So much this. I had a PT make fun of me because I didn’t know the medical name of the area that was causing me pain. WTF? Am I a medical professional? No. What did make me snigger afterwards was discovering her name was Karen.
The influx of women and people of color, any color, into the medical field, and OB/GYN in particular, has actually made things worse, not better.
Anecdote: Over the decades, I have heard WAAAAAAAAAAY more horror stories about female OB/GYNs than male ones.
That and no one seems to be interested in funding the same research on women. As for POC, I’ve heard stories that a lot of doctors are still being taught that POC have tougher skin than white people do.
Also I remember hearing that doctors believe (falsely, of course) that black people have higher pain tolerance than white people, so doctors don’t provide them with sufficient pain meds.
There are also people who are very very slow to assume that if something bad happens to a girl or a woman, it was because she was a girl or woman. They refuse to accept any explanation that involves sexism if they can come up with any other possible explanation.
More discerning people, without an agenda to push, know to look for patterns. If you see a pattern of women being treated differently than men, sexism is a likely explanation.
That is true, and so, for that matter, is the reverse.
This is true, when you look at the amount of funding to various comparable sex-specific cancers for instance, the funding for female cancers are much higher than for male cancers. I’m not sure why that should be but it is possible that sexist stereotypes and expectations play some part in it.
It’s incredibly deep. 40 years ago i was a lab technician, and we used expensive designer mice. K they were generically obese in a way that was relevant to our research.) The doctor i worked for told me he bought female mice because they were cheaper, because there’s more demand for male mice! So much more demand that it affected the price.
It depends on how you define sex-specific cancers. Breast cancer, which receives a lot of research funds, is associated with women but affects both sexes (although it is far more common in women).
If you’re looking at specifically gendered cancers, research for men’s cancers receive more funding than women’s.
Breast Cancer - $102,914,200
Prostate Cancer - $41,650,102
Ovarian Cancer - $21,336,500
Cervical cancer - $11,778,450
These are 2021 figures.
Another way to rank funding is to compare the frequency of cancer types with the amount of funding they receive. The four most common cancer types in order are breast cancer, lung cancer, prostate cancer, and colon-rectal cancer. The four cancer types which receive the most funding in order are breast cancer, colon-rectal cancer, lung cancer, and prostate cancer.