Are women’s complaints so often dismissed because doctors simply don’t know enough about women’s bodies, their symptoms, and the diseases that disproportionately affect them? Or are women’s complaints so often dismissed because doctors hold an unconscious stereotype that women are unreliable reporters of their symptoms? Is it a lack of knowledge or a lack of trust? It seems to be both. The knowledge gap and the trust gap are so tightly interwoven at this point that they could be thought of as two sides of the same coin: Women’s symptoms are not taken seriously because medicine doesn’t know as
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