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How Modern Medicine Has Failed Women with Elinor Cleghorn

Factually! with Adam Conover

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The Effects of Old Mythologies on Women's Health

Our social beliefs today must leak into our medical knowledge in the same way. The most measurable ones are when women and men express pain. And of course, the very real effect of these assumptions is that complex diseases often go mis diagnosed or undiagnosed. So now really is the time to disentangle that sort of antiquated gendered stuff from medicine as a science in an art form.

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