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medical industry must be going for some long term achievement in how much they disbelieve, mistreat, and degrade women going to them. I wonder how many units o
by tacticus 5mo ago
medical industry must be going for some long term achievement in how much they disbelieve, mistreat, and degrade women going to them.
I wonder how many units of their training courses are spent on this and how much is spent on the cultural reinforcement of it.
- fullstop 5mo agoYes, let's pretend that the bias does not exist, that is helpful. It certainly doesn't have to do with the fact that it's currently a 60/40 split in active male vs female physicians. Or that women are more likely to be taken seriously by doctors: * https://www.health.harvard.edu/pain/the-dangerous-dismissal-of-womens-pain * https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10937548/ Are you really unwilling to admit that such a bias exists?
- heartbreak 5mo agoThis seems like an especially bad faith interpretation of the comment you were responding to.