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Gender‌ ‌Bias‌ ‌In‌ ‌Health‌ ‌Care‌

Gender‌ ‌Bias‌ ‌In‌ ‌Health‌ ‌Care‌

Doctors would put off girls’ and women’s symptoms to female hysteria or depression because many doctors believe that ADHD and many other disorders only appear in men. ADHD for example presents differently in females than in males.  Women have been misdiagnosed because of the medical field gender bias thinking that ADHD was a man’s disorder.  Countless women go misdiagnosed because of gender bias. Doctors’ ignorance, not believing their patients, and not listening leads to the percentage of women’s misdiagnosis going up. Doctors would never not believe a male when it comes to their health, gender bias. Gender bias isn’t just not having enough research on women but that women are still not taken seriously, even when it comes to death from medical problems. Yes, over the years the gender bias in the healthcare gap has improved, but there is still a big difference between male misdiagnoses and females.

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Hello, I'm Alyssa Edmonds. I'm in 12th grade at Conrad Schools of Science and currently taking Biomed as my pathway. Reading is one of my favorite hobbies, and writing in my eye is just and extension of that. Journalism is just an amazing way to freely express my feelings about the media today, in a safe and protected environment. That is why I decided to join Journalism. I'm very excited to write and report on topics for my peers.

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    Catrice EverettMar 12, 2022 at 10:33 pm

    Wow! This is new information for me.

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