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by lostlogin 1519 days ago
Could someone explain what’s inaccurate here?

Edit: It originally appears to be getting heavily downvoted.

2 comments

Nothing is inaccurate. Here's a few primary and secondary sources.

https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/women-and-pain-dispariti...

> a 2000 study[0] published in The New England Journal of Medicine found that women are seven times more likely than men to be misdiagnosed and discharged in the middle of having a heart attack.

0: http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM200008243430809

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families...

> women with chronic pain conditions are more likely to be wrongly diagnosed with mental health conditions than men and prescribed psychotropic drugs, as doctors dismiss their symptoms as hysterics [1].

1: https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1990-98104-000

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4843483/

> racial bias in pain perception is associated with racial bias in pain treatment recommendations... Black Americans are systematically undertreated for pain relative to white Americans.

(To contextualize the votes: I think you were getting down voted for assuming that sexual and racial bias don’t exist. You assumed the statement mentioning that such biases existed was inaccurate and wanted explanation as to how. However, per my other comment, the biases exist and contribute to significant negative health outcomes for the disadvantaged groups.)
> I think you were getting down voted for assuming that sexual and racial bias don’t exist

I agree that they do exists and am aware of the research showing it. I work in healthcare.

I didn’t make the grandparent comment that got downvoted but was interested to know why it was happening.