I also asked all the women I interviewed how their experiences of being misdiagnosed and dismissed and neglected by health care providers had changed their view of the medical system. And universally I heard the same refrain: I have less trust in medicine now. They said they saw now that health care providers were fallible and, worse, that they often failed to acknowledge that they were fallible. It is up to the medical community to earn back women’s trust. And some of the changes needed are big systemic ones, ones that are difficult to implement and will no doubt take time, but there is one
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