1. El Dolor Ignorado: Definiendo la Misoginia Médica.
La misoginia médica se describe como un sesgo sistémico y profundamente arraigado en el sistema de salud, donde las preocupaciones de las mujeres son minimizadas, mal diagnosticadas o directamente ignoradas. Los testimonios la señalan como una práctica normalizada que los propios profesionales a menudo no reconocen, resultando en un trato negligente y perjudicial.
- There is definitely medical misogyny. I've encountered it throughout my life. R4today.
- The medical misogyny is absolutely bonkers, and doctors don't even recognize it as such because it's so ingrained in the system.
- Medical misogyny is a serious and often overlooked issue in healthcare. It refers to the way women’s health concerns are frequently dismissed, underestimated, or misdiagnosed simply because they are women. This can happen in many ways, for example.
- Misogyny in medicine says “your pain is normal” “your suffering is expected” “your complaints do not deserve attention” we can do better.
- Literally *every* woman i know has had an experience with the healthcare system that gaslights and tries to minimize or outright deny what they're feeling. Medical misogyny needs to be dealt with throughout medical education.
2. "No te Creen sin un Hombre": Gaslighting y Descrédito.
Una experiencia recurrente es la necesidad de que un hombre acompañe a la paciente para que sus síntomas sean tomados en serio. Las mujeres reportan ser víctimas de "gaslighting" médico, donde su dolor es descartado hasta que una figura masculina valida su testimonio, un acto que puede determinar la diferencia entre recibir tratamiento o ser enviada a casa sin un diagnóstico.
- We often need a man to accompany us just to be taken seriously. /15.
- It’s true medical misogyny is a huge problem. Doctors would not take me seriously until my fiancé started coming to appts with me.
- When i had my hysterectomy, i had a life threatening complication ignored due to medical misogyny i was sent home from the er three times with severe internal bleeding it took a fourth trip with a man in tow before i finally got care that’s medical misogyny. Without that man, i would be dead.
- This story of medical misogyny is one of many. It is a horror story. Please remember this when you assume that medical professionals will be there for you if/when you become chronically ill or disabled. Signed, a woman who had to bring her husband to appointments bc medical misogyny & negligence.
- My wife is a doctor and still asks me to come to some appointments to mitigate the misogyny.
3. Consecuencias Letales: Cuando la Indiferencia Mata.
La misoginia en la medicina no es solo un problema de maltrato, sino una causa directa de daño físico, discapacidad, trauma y muerte. Los relatos describen cómo la desestimación de síntomas ha llevado a diagnósticos tardíos de enfermedades graves como el cáncer, dejando a las mujeres con condiciones intratables y, en muchos casos, con consecuencias fatales.
- Misogyny in medicine kills. It maims. It disables and traumatizes. Women are frequently treated as hysterical and not given the medical care they require.
- Medical misogyny kills women everyday by gaslighting women about our own pain and lives experiences.
- My best friend was just telling me yesterday about a friend of hers who now has terminal cancer because her male doctor wouldn’t take her complaints seriously and mishandled her care. My friend won’t even see a male doctor for this very reason. And i totally understand. Misogyny literally kills.
- Medical misogyny very likely killed my late wife. I've no tolerance for it, and little trust left in the medical community.
- I have had two dead friends die because of medical misogyny. Because doctors didn’t believe women knew their own bodies.
4. Un Problema Estructural: Sesgos en la Investigación y Formación.
El problema se origina en un sistema diseñado históricamente en torno al cuerpo masculino como estándar. Esta base defectuosa se traduce en una falta de investigación sobre enfermedades que afectan predominantemente a las mujeres y en una formación médica que perpetúa estereotipos dañinos, considerando el dolor femenino como "normal" o "psicológico".
- The point i’m trying to make, is medical misogyny is a systemic problem. Medicine by design revolves around white cisgender men and the rest of us are expendable in comparison. Which is eww.
- Not only does medical misogyny lead to worse health care, but it's in the whole system so the illnesses that mostly happen to women aren't even researched.
- And no, the inability to get funding to study women’s health isn’t the cause of medical misogyny, it’s a symptom of it.
- Misogyny is deeply baked into medical training. Even women doctors, including women who consider themselves staunch feminists, believe a lot of what they are taught as fact.
- Because misogyny is rife in all fields and especially prevalent in medicine because all the research on the human body has been done on men.
5. Interseccionalidad: Cuando el Sesgo se Multiplica.
La misoginia médica se agrava cuando se cruza con otras formas de discriminación como el racismo, el capacitismo y la gordofobia. Las mujeres racializadas, con discapacidad o con sobrepeso enfrentan barreras adicionales, sufriendo un trato aún más negligente y peligroso por parte de un sistema que acumula múltiples capas de prejuicio en su contra.
- Misogyny and patriarchal control in healthcare are wide-reaching and manifest in cases like this, in unscientific restrictions on hrt for both trans and cis people, in fatphobia and never taking women (trans and cis) seriously when talking about pain and illness….
- Or disabled women! don’t forget us, cuz they always do misogyny and our mistreatment in healthcare go hand in hand in the worst ways possible. It kills women, especially women of color.
- Medical misogyny kills. I am so tired of the entire medical establishment treating women as wombs first and humans needing urgent medical care something like 4th or 5th. . And even lower on the priority list if they're black, indigenous, poc, or gender-nonconforming.
- Misogyny is a problem in medicine, but so is ableism and racism the more multiple marginalized you are, the worse your care.
- This!! because medical misogyny (and racism, for that matter) are ingrained in the education and culture. It's beyond frustrating to be dismissed by the people we think would understand us.