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I'd never heard that, but it sounds to me like the other side of the same coin regarding what's commonly said of men: that they delay going to the doctor for to
by Mordisquitos 4y ago
I'd never heard that, but it sounds to me like the other side of the same coin regarding what's commonly said of men: that they delay going to the doctor for too long as symptoms progress, or even don't go at all unless insisted upon.
It could be that, on average, doctors become accustomed to the idea that when a man visits them it must be very serious, and therefore when they are visited by women they generally display milder or less obvious signs and symptoms by comparison (again, on average). Hence, doctors may get the impression that women are more hypochondriac than men when the fact of the matter is actually the inverse.
- ad404b8a372f2b9 4y agoMen get routinely ignored, disrespected and misdiagnosed as well. The doctor-patient relationship is adversarial (when facing someone you don't already know), what matters is not what they choose to give you, it's what you can take from them. This is why people who are more assertive and confident will generally do better, as well as people who come in groups.
- FollowingTheDao 4y agoYes, I am a man with Lupus, they ignored my lab test results for 35 years before I forced them to give me a Lupus panel to get me to a rheumy.