A thread on this atrocity from @TheLancet
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The Lancet, how you gonna play like you care that female bodies and female biology have been excluded from medicine and science WHEN YOU WONT NAME THEM?
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The Lancet, how you gonna play like you care that female bodies and female biology have been excluded from medicine and science WHEN YOU WONT NAME THEM?
Thankfully, some of us actually can recognise, name and discuss medical misogyny, and will continue to do so.
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Women are being given medications that have only been tested on men. This is because female hormones & menstrual cycles have always been seen as variables that need to be eliminated or controlled instead of included/explored in the way medicine metabolises & acts in the body.
Women are being given medications that have only been tested on men. This is because female hormones & menstrual cycles have always been seen as variables that need to be eliminated or controlled instead of included/explored in the way medicine metabolises & acts in the body.
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Women naturally have more fat, so medications which metabolise differently in fat/water in the body act differently on men and women. But nah fuck it, just test it on men.
Women naturally have more fat, so medications which metabolise differently in fat/water in the body act differently on men and women. But nah fuck it, just test it on men.
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Women’s bodies have always been seen as ‘defective versions of men’ since Ancient Greek philosophy.
The existence of a clitoris and the anatomy of it was ignored and denied by medical science until the fucking 21st century.
Women’s bodies have always been seen as ‘defective versions of men’ since Ancient Greek philosophy.
The existence of a clitoris and the anatomy of it was ignored and denied by medical science until the fucking 21st century.
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Doctors believed women were hysterical, and that their uterus would detach and float around their body attacking the brain and other organs which caused women to be ‘crazy’ (wandering womb syndrome) until 1950… 19-fucking-50
Doctors believed women were hysterical, and that their uterus would detach and float around their body attacking the brain and other organs which caused women to be ‘crazy’ (wandering womb syndrome) until 1950… 19-fucking-50
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Doctors believed that the way to get a woman to behave more ‘ladylike’ was to force her to have sex with, or marry a man up to 1960s. Some even advocated forcing women to bear children as a ‘treatment’ for trauma.
Doctors believed that the way to get a woman to behave more ‘ladylike’ was to force her to have sex with, or marry a man up to 1960s. Some even advocated forcing women to bear children as a ‘treatment’ for trauma.
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It takes over 8 years to get a doctor to believe you have endometriosis & send you for basic tests
Women are more likely to have their cancer picked up at stage 3/4 because when they raise it with doctors, they will be told it’s stress or that they should stop googling…
It takes over 8 years to get a doctor to believe you have endometriosis & send you for basic tests
Women are more likely to have their cancer picked up at stage 3/4 because when they raise it with doctors, they will be told it’s stress or that they should stop googling…
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Finally, studies in UK in 2018 found that women with cardiac symptoms will be left 2-4 hours longer than men in A&E because doctors assume that women exaggerate their pain on the pain scales. This meant they would be left in agony for longer.
Finally, studies in UK in 2018 found that women with cardiac symptoms will be left 2-4 hours longer than men in A&E because doctors assume that women exaggerate their pain on the pain scales. This meant they would be left in agony for longer.
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Due to this, women are much more likely than men to be sent home or away from doctors whilst having heart attacks, and are more likely to die within 6 months of complaining to a doctor of cardiac issues.
Due to this, women are much more likely than men to be sent home or away from doctors whilst having heart attacks, and are more likely to die within 6 months of complaining to a doctor of cardiac issues.
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If you are now going to suddenly pretend that you care about medical misogyny then stand up for us and stick yer neck out. For once.
SAY WOMAN. SAY FEMALE.
You fucking cowards.
If you are now going to suddenly pretend that you care about medical misogyny then stand up for us and stick yer neck out. For once.
SAY WOMAN. SAY FEMALE.
You fucking cowards.
Oh look, you seem to be able to say MEN
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