Lindsey Gingerich’s Reviews > Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick > Status Update
Lindsey Gingerich
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Accd. to the AARDA it takes nearly 4 yrs+4 doctors, on avg., before a patient w an autoimmune disease is properly diagnosed. Nearly half report that before they were diagnosed, they were dismissed as "chronic complainers" who were overly concerned w their health.
— Aug 02, 2023 02:17PM
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Lindsey Gingerich
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Pain genetics lab director at McGill "Even if you decide you should only be studying one sex, it damn well should be females. Most patients with pain are women. We fail in our duties if we conduct research using only male rodents, producing results that might only serve men."
— Aug 17, 2023 10:55AM
Lindsey Gingerich
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Knowledge gap: "we literally know less about every aspect of female biology compared to male biology."
Trust gap: women aren't believed.
Women's symptoms are not taken seriously because medicine doesn't know as much about their bodies and health problems. And medicine doesn't know much about their bodies and health problems because it's doesn't take their symptoms seriously.
— Aug 12, 2023 05:11PM
Trust gap: women aren't believed.
Women's symptoms are not taken seriously because medicine doesn't know as much about their bodies and health problems. And medicine doesn't know much about their bodies and health problems because it's doesn't take their symptoms seriously.
Lindsey Gingerich
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Women are seven times more likely to be sent home from the hospital IN THE MIDDLE OF HAVING A HEART ATTACK.
— Aug 02, 2023 02:27PM
