| Your location seems to be in Cox, Virginia, not sure how widespread beyond that your experience is? Of course lots of people have already noted that being represented in medical studies is not related to doctor's visits, but I would like to talk about the doctor's visits observation. At any rate one thing that might cause you to think that Women are receiving lots of medical attention, based on your anecdotal evidence from visits to doctors' offices, there is one type of medical attention that of course is almost all women and that is the medical attention that revolves around pregnancy. That might skew your perception. Furthermore if AI models and doctors have a tendency to miss disease among women it would seem to me to be reasonable to assume that women would be in the doctor's offices more often. Example of why this is: You go to your doctor, there is a man there, doctor says you have this rare disease you need to go to this specialist - you will not see that man in the doctor's office again dealing with his rare disease. You go to your doctor, there is a woman there that has the same rare disease, the doctor says I think it will clear up, just relax you have some anxiety. That woman will probably be showing up to that doctor's office to deal with that disease multiple times, and you might end up seeing her. on edit: there was another example of why women might be in doctor's offices more often then men that I forgot, women tend, even nowadays, to be the primary caregiver and errand runner for the family, sometimes if you have issues with children or your husband etc. has had an appointment, needs to drop a sample off, etc. it may be that the woman goes to the doctor's office and takes care of these errands around the medical needs of the rest of the family, and thus you might go to a doctor and see a couple women sitting around and wonder damn, why all these women always being sick, when the meeting isn't even about them. |