Why Western Medicine Isn't Catching Up With These Things?

Women are much more likely than men to develop autoimmune diseases. Women also get more and non-smoking related cancers, she says. Western medicine isn't catching up with these things, according to the author. It is a British trait to suppress emotions, or this stiff upper lip culture that we have, he adds. But in Britain, John LaCarré said you could be standing next to an upper class Briton who was having a nervous breakdown without knowing it.