Women aren't just 'little men': The consequences of medical misogyny

According to ABC News, medical misogyny remains embedded in Australia's healthcare system, and it's causing real consequences. The problem isn't just attitudes—it's how women's health conditions are diagnosed and treated. Experts warn that doctors often dismiss or misdiagnose women because medicine still relies on male-centered assumptions about the body. The reality: women require fundamentally different diagnostic and treatment approaches, but many healthcare systems treat female patients as variants of male physiology.

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