A lack of knowledge about female anatomy and health has led to 'medical gaslighting', resulting in misdiagnoses for some women.
Dr Marieke Bigg is the author of This Won’t Hurt: How Medicine Fails Women and she joinedto discuss how and why women seem to have different experiences of healthcare."The starting premise really is that there's societal power imbalances, which we all know, that shape medicine and the ideas we hold about bodies", she explained.
"A lot of the areas that matter predominantly to female bodies have just been marginalised, excluded or dismissed within medicine", she said."But also it's not taken as seriously scientifically", she said.
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