Many respondents said they had their serious diagnoses missed. Others said they’d been told that what they were feeling was “all in their head”.
Some said they’d only narrowly survived as a result.
Herald health editorKate AubussonandAge senior writerWendy Tuohytalk about the investigation and the history of gender medical bias forThe Morning Edition podcast.
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More than a thousand women have shared their disturbing encounters with the medical system as part of an investigation into medical misogyny.
Australian medical research currently does not account for the needs of women,a scoping review from the Department of Health and Aged Care has found.
Do women or men have a higher threshold for pain? It’s a question that raises a number of problems with Australia’s medical system.
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