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[–]russkayacabbage 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

This has always been a problem since typically men will be doctors and unwilling to delve too far into the female study because its "improper", but also because medicine is not tested for women. They're so afraid that the medicine will react in a way that inhibit a woman's ability to give birth, or that she might be pregnant, that every medicine is usually only tested on men, then women to the absolute lowest dosage. So once again, we are held back in a way that men will never be because everyone knows that a woman cannot possibly be okay with not having children, since its just a phase they'll grow out of.

Additionally, its no surprise at all that women suffer more from heart attacks. Men are the happy go lucky ones. The vast majority of men only feel stress about their jobs. Women are taught to be the caregivers, and with that comes the stress; even without a job to also worry about. Is the house in order, she's got to worry about her family, her extended family, her husbands family to a certain degree, is everyone being fed, are the bills being paid. Throw in children and thats an exponential amount of stress. My mom jokes that I gave her grey hair and thats totally true. She was the one worrying about our schools, our camps, our religious upbringing (not hardcore, but just taking us to church and baptisms /confirmation) our mental health, and then throw in all of our fuckups, she was the one who was teaching us, dad didn't give a fuck.

[–]VioletRemi 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

In my country most doctors are actually women, however, researchers are still mainly men and tests are done mostly on men as well.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I think it's a huge problem for the scientific community to start acting like sex doesn't matter when it does. Even before TRAs, women's health was less studied than men's. Now with the gender neutral or self-id push, it's going to be even worse.

[–]VioletRemi 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

They never learning from history...or maybe they just don't care.

It is not first time when this happens, it happened after plague, when hygiene rules were designed around men, so women were more often sicken, it happened 50 years ago with thalidomide-based pain killers, it is happening today. Again.

[–]jet199 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Pretty sure women doctors don't have the same problems diagnosing women that men do.

[–]VioletRemi 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Indeed they don't, but it doesn't change if disease is not researched, or it is unknown how pills/medicine will work on women body.

[–]radikaalirusina 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

It took years for my mother to have her epilepsy diagnosed. YEARS! All because they couldn't replicate the seizures in a controlled setting at the hospital. She had constant fractures and bruises all over her body because of the seizures. My aunt and cousin both had diagnosed epilepsy, but they still didn't believe her. She is bipolar, so they thought she was harming herself I guess.

It started affecting her heart so badly that they were talking about having her go through heart surgery. Luckily we moved back to our home country before that happened, where she was diagnosed with epilepsy within a month.

[–]LoganBlade 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yet another danger of redefining sex as gender.

Also

"Ma'am you have testicular cancer"