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Uncharted: Understanding women's health across the body

Women's health remains largely understudied due to historical exclusion from clinical research, creating significant gaps in understanding disease prevention, diagnosis, and treatment across most health conditions.

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6 months ago

You're the only port of call for 400 hospital patients, which is absurd': Matthew Hutchinson on the perils of life as an NHS doctor

You couldn't call it a microaggression, the patient's assumption that, being black, Hutchinson was unlikely to be an expert. But this anecdote barely registers on the Geiger counter of bigotry in healthcare that Hutchinson writes about trenchantly and acerbically, from the prejudices doctors face from patients and the gender and race blindspots in medical textbooks, to the racism that could endanger a patient's life (black women are four times more likely to die during childbirth).

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Uncharted: Understanding women's health across the body

You're the only port of call for 400 hospital patients, which is absurd': Matthew Hutchinson on the perils of life as an NHS doctor

#gender-bias-in-medicine
#gender-bias-in-medicine