It is, unfortunately, far too common for women to go into medical settings complaining of pain and have to deal with being ignored or dismissed by medical providers. The so-called pain gap is causing women to receive inadequate treatment, particularly in comparison to their male counterparts. Several factors feed into this gender pain gap, including a lack of accurate training on the differences between sexes and how those sexes express their pain, cultural biases and categorizing women as hysteric.
How do doctors ignore women’s pain?
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