Updated 4/2023. Part 1 - It's Not in Your Head.

Amy and Brittany talk about:

—how the sex and gender bias may negatively affect us

—how it may be partially responsible for the long delay in diagnosis for endo patients

—how we can face multiple biases depending on the identities we may hold

🔗RESOURCES🔗

For clickable links to the resources below, go to www.insixteenyears.com/episode44

🔗Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick by Maya Dusenbery

🔗Pain and Prejudice by Gabrielle Jackson

🔗BLEED: Destroying Myths and Misogyny in Endometriosis by Tracy Lindeman

🔗Why medicine often has dangerous side effects for women – Ted Talk by Alyson McGregor.

🔗Gender Bias in Medical Research: How It Operates and Why It Matters – General overview.

🔗Regulations, Guidance, and Reports related to Women’s Health – On the FDA website, it has important developments in US health regulations of women and people AFAB

🔗Sex matters: Drugs can affect sexes differently – CBS 60 minutes news report.

🔗How we fail black patients in pain – Article from the Association of American Medical Colleges.

🔗Racial bias in pain assessment and treatment recommendations, and false beliefs about biological differences between blacks and whites – “Racial bias in pain assessment.” Kelly M. Hoffman, Sophie Trawalter, Jordan R. Axt, M. Norman Oliver. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Apr 2016, 113 (16) 4296-4301; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1516047113

🔗10 Stats You Need to Know About LGBT Healthcare

🔗Sabin JA, Riskind RG, Nosek BA. Health Care Providers’ Implicit and Explicit Attitudes Toward Lesbian Women and Gay Men. Am J Public Health. 2015;105(9):1831-1841. doi:10.2105/AJPH.2015.302631

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