Interesting article

[Loula82]

Got sent this article this evening and thought it might resonate with a lot of people on here.

Sad but true.

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OMGosh, thank you! Yes! We were discussing this very thing a few weeks ago. ‘Bored woman syndrome’. Ugh!!!

[Loula82 in reply to Hidden]

It’s almost unbelievable isn’t it to think how under funded women’s illness is, yet how willing Dr’s are to tell women it’s stress or anxiety or any other reason, when what they should be saying is that they don’t know. Rather than admit they are not sure they would prefer to put blame on the patient.

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Absolutely! Women’s bodies are so much more complex than men’s. I think it’s frightening for some (is for us, and it’s our bodies!) I have had wonderful doctors, both men and women, and I have had some horrendously horrid doctors, both men and women. I don’t understand why they are so willing to let so many of us die.

[Loula82]

I think female Doctors are still hampered by the fact that there has been so much underfunding and lack of investigation in these areas and instead of acknowledging the unknown it’s easy to go with the status quo and easy answer, which unfortunately means we get stuck repeating the same cycle until more funding and research is done.

[Lupiknits]

Extremely interesting. A long time ago, when I did a grown up job, we were doing our best to increase the number of female GPs and I believe there may now be more female GPs than male . That doesn’t, of course mean either work full time, but it’s now really quite easy to find, or ask for, a female GP in much of the UK.

That’s unlikely to apply to specialists.

I firmly believe in many cases women are still more likely to be dismissed as “stressed” or “hysterical” in the first instance. It’s unfortunately the case for many of us that attending rheumatology with a man makes a difference. The time I took my son, who still looks several years younger than he is, and looked like he was skipping school that day, resulted in one of the most attentive appointments I’ve had.

[TM1970 in reply to Lupiknits]

What happened? Did your son surprise the doctors? My rheumatologist hates it when I bring my eldest daughter, it’s written all over his face, she questions him and he doesn’t like it one bit. X

[Lupiknits in reply to TM1970]

My son just glared, with his arms crossed, ready to give them an earful. No idea if they found him intimidating (lol) or thought “this poor child needs his mummy to get better”. Either way, it worked!

[TM1970 in reply to Lupiknits]

😂😂😂😂

[Krazykat26]

Thanx Loula

It's very interesting.."hysteria" "hysterectomy"..both words relating to our wombs!! It all comes down to the fact that no men have wombs!! 😹😹

Throughout the ages..women have been treated by other women..midwives n healers were generally women..that is until women were demonised as witches (by men)..n we all know what happened then!!

Thank u for sharing this with us 🤗

Kat 😽😽 xx

[Lizziequink]

How true Loula. I admit it's not something I've suffered from but have a friend who does so passed the article to her. On her behalf, thank you

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It’s all about the way medicine has always been taught using the white middle aged male as model apparently.

In my experience women doctors can be just as uncaring and non empathic as some men. But the worst experiences I have had, and I’ve had many, have been of male doctors or as a consequence of Freudian nonsense dreamt up by male doctor Gods but delivered on the ground pretty equally by both genders.

Perhaps we need there to be more gender fluid doctors?

Most of my doctors presently are women and this applies to the 6 out of 7 or 8 specialists I am under and also to my main GP. Two of these are distinguished professors, both wonderful. I still think it’s much more to do with the medical model though but it’s definitely the male doctors I’ve seen that I’m feeling most furious with!

“Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick

Book by Maya Dusenbery“