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'Calm down dear, it’s only an aneurysm’ – why doctors need to take women’s pain seriously
Following from several other posts about gender bias, I offer this:
[i]'Calm down dear, it’s only an aneurysm’ – why doctors need to take women’s pain seriously [/i]
[i]Female heart-attack victims are half as likely as men to receive treatment. Is ‘hysteria’ still being used to deny women adequate
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