Updated 4/2023. Part 4 - But Doctor, It’s Not Psychosomatic!

Amy and Brittany talk about:

—‘medically unexplained symptoms’

—mental health referrals and stereotypes around being distressed about symptoms

—results from a 2018 review which looked into how gender bias and gender norms have affected medical treatment

🔗RESOURCES🔗

For clickable links to the resources below, go to www.insixteenyears.com/episode50

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

🔗Anke Samulowitz, Ida Gremyr, Erik Eriksson, Gunnel Hensing, ““Brave Men” and “Emotional Women”: A Theory-Guided Literature Review on Gender Bias in Health Care and Gendered Norms towards Patients with Chronic Pain”, Pain Research and Management, vol. 2018, Article ID 6358624, 14 pages, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1155/2018/6358624

🔗Bias In Medicine: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) – Youtube video

🔗Bransfield RC, Friedman KJ. Differentiating Psychosomatic, Somatopsychic, Multisystem Illnesses, and Medical Uncertainty. Healthcare (Basel). 2019;7(4):114. Published 2019 Oct 8. doi:10.3390/healthcare7040114

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