“Women are in pain,” writes Gabrielle Jackson in Pain and Prejudice. “They’re in pain with their periods, and while having sex; they have pelvic pain, migraines, headaches, joint aches, painful bladders, irritable bowels, sore lower backs… But women’s pain is all too often dismissed, their illnesses misdiagnosed or ignored.” First […]
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Misogyny in health care leaves women to suffer
Girls are at bigger chance of significant wellness problems simply because of what is been dubbed the “gender soreness gap” – an difficulty that normally leaves them below-diagnosed and below-treated, and one particular that the Australian Federal Govt has vowed to combat. Assistant Minister for Health and Aged Care, Ged […]
‘No one would believe me’: Labor launches women’s health council to tackle medical misogyny | Health
At one point Debra was seeing a GP every two weeks, complaining of severe arm pain that would leave her drenched in sweat and complaining of neck palpitations. Debra told him, and doctors at her local hospital, that her younger brother went into cardiac arrest aged just 35, and that […]