"Gaslighting in women's health: No, it's not just in your head." Men tend to be more persistent with their doctors when they have concerns about their health, Grossman said. "Women may have a harder time pushing back and advocating for themselves," she added. "They feel like they need to be good patients, which means accepting what their doctors tell them. But by doing so, they're stripping themselves of a voice."

Well this is so much bollocks it's actually shocking.

No, love, doctors are just shit and sexist.

It's well known that men avoid going to the doctors and get easily fobbed off when they do while women go in with a check list and hassle the doctors for the diagnosis they want.

Every woman I know, of all different personalities, has been fobbed of by a doctor for something which was a real problem. Nothing to do with their approach, the doctors just size people up and make assumptions based on that then ignore anything you say which doesn't fit with their assumptions. The only way around it at the moment is just to keep going back and seeing different people, like this woman did.