March 23, 2016

80 Sexism in Medicine and Fox New's Dr. Manny

25 minutes

Hello my Clan of the Crave Bears! I’m so glad you decided to join me today. Today I’m getting real with you, so consider yourself warned. I had an experience recently that I have been waiting to share with you, so today I am taking the opportunity.

I was on Fox News a couple of weeks ago with Dr. Manny. He called my work “horse shit” to my face. Here’s what happened:

I sat down with Dr. Manny and I immediately felt like he was not into my opinions

I immediately tried to build rapport and I tried to even get him to laugh

His final comment to me about cravings was, “That was very entertaining!”

I wasn’t there to entertain, because Women’s health issues are so important to me

After the segment, I tried to brush off his “entertaining” comment

I even got him to agree to take a selfie with me

After we took the selfie, he said, “Well, that was all horse shit!”

My head was spinning - I knew he would have never said the same thing to a man

The female producer who booked the show was shocked to hear this

Last year I was on Dr. Oz last year and he could barely contain his eye roll

Men believe women are weak, silly and emotional and they dismiss our true needs

The dismissive attitudes are exactly what women face everyday

The unexamined gender bias in medicine is killing us

I have so many examples of women’s medical disorders being dismissed by health practitioners

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Do you have a story of how you have been treated by a medical professional? I’d love to hear your story. Go to my blog at alexandrajamieson.com/blog and click on the little blue microphone on the right and leave me a message.

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