
SMNTY Classics: Do doctors listen to women?
Stuff Mom Never Told You
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Is It the Word Stress That's Affecting the Perception of a Woman's Symptoms?
Caroline t du references to the journal of woman's health study from two thousand nine that found that male physicians had a higher component two score, which was understanding the whole person. But i'm wondering if maybe this big dissatisfaction has much less to do with the degender of the physician that we're talking to. Maybe it's how women present their symptoms and whether or not the word stress comes because a cornell study presented at the two thousand eight cardio vascular research foundation found that mentioning stress affects a doctor's perception of a woman's symptoms.
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