by Jeff Dubin | Apr 19, 2021 | Chronic illness, Coronavirus, Physician bias
Novelist Lisa Grunwald, an MS sufferer, wrote a touching article for The Atlantic about how when the country opens up, her friends will get back to traveling hither and yon while she and others who live with a variety of chronic illnesses will still be confined to...
by Jeff Dubin | Feb 3, 2021 | Physician bias
When I was in college, I volunteered one afternoon each week in the ER at Yale-New Haven Hospital. One of the stories making the rounds at the time was about two residents who were trying to do a spinal tap on an elderly, Black, obese woman. The residents had...
by Jeff Dubin | Dec 19, 2019 | Physician bias
My last post discussed the problem of women being misdiagnosed at rates higher than those for men, with sometimes fatal consequences. This post will discuss a few ideas for improving how physicians diagnose women. If we are to solve the problem of women being...
by Jeff Dubin | Dec 1, 2019 | Physician bias
For certain conditions, women are misdiagnosed more frequently than men and the consequences can be fatal. According to the British Medical Journal, gender differences in detecting and treating heart attacks has led to women having significantly higher post-heart...
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