Is There a Systemic Bias in Health Care?

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The biases you're describing are largely society. They're very widely distributed across our society. But we're talking specificly about doctors, right? We expect them to bring a certain scientific rigor to the situation. So i'm not blaming individual doctors at all. And it's not, you know, misogenistic conspiracy on the part of health care professionals but the issues that we come up against when women, especially, are trying to get answers about less immediately identifiable health issues.

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