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269. Bad Medicine, Part 2: (Drug) Trials and Tribulations

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The Difference Between Males and Females in Medicine

The liver is the most important part of a drug metabolism. Males and females have different enzymes that are on the liver. And so that can alter the way drugs get cleared. Women wake faster from sedation with anaesthetics, so they recover much more slowly in hospital. The fundamental way males and females differ is that every cell in a male's bodyis x y,. In every female cell is x, x.

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