Routine thyroid cancer screening came into vogue in the 2000s, though now we know that some 80 percent of the resulting surgeries, in women specifically, were done unnecessarily.11 Men and women are equally obese, yet women are more often recommended bariatric surgery. We’re more likely to be prescribed antidepressants and antipsychotics and recommended electroconvulsive therapy.12 We’re also more likely to be prescribed opioids, and 40 percent more likely to become dependent on them.13 We are prescribed more drugs and are recommended more surgery in general.
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