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> criminally under-diagnosed because they tend to effect women

I just can't understand this argument. Women already live 5 years longer than men on average. You mean to tell me if the system didn't discriminate so strongly against their best interest they'd live even longer than men?




Responding to both you and the comment above/below you:

Women have a hard time getting symptoms, esp around pain, taken seriously. Oftentimes these symptoms are downplayed or ignored, regardless of the sex/gender of the medical professional.


Again. If they are discriminated so strongly against, why do they live 5 years longer on average?

It's like you completely disregarded my comment and decided instead to just proselytize.


Because of biology? Other female primates (chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans, etc) also live longer than males.

I don't understand your argument. Just because women live longer on average, they're supposed to live in pain without treatment?


My argument is that if there was a significant bias against them then that gap would not exist or be much smaller.

In reality they get about 7 times the allocated health expenditure that males get.




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