Why didn't you say so?

[u/TheNectarineDiaries]

Best medical advice I ever got was to bring a man to your appointments

[u/SmoothTurtle872 → u/[deleted]]

All of my female friends have complained about this, like it's clearly a massive problem.

[u/Solynox → u/SmoothTurtle872]

Genuinely wtf is being taught in medical school for physicians to consistently downplay womens symptoms?

[u/FrostyCat13 → u/Solynox]

As someone else said, until very recently, medical research was done exclusively on males since it was "easier since it's the same without pesky hormones". There's also still some teachers and/or textbooks which states women have a higher tolerance to pain yet at the same time also say women are more likely to complain over nothing and there's also racism in there since there's a lot of "black people are more resistant to pain" and other unproven bullshit.

It's a lot of old misogyny and racism that's been baked into the medical field for centuries and it's hard to get rid of.