A major misdiagnosis caused one writer to question whether there's a gender bias in medicine.
shows that men reporting their symptoms are taken at face value, while female patients are perceived as overly emotional, prone to exaggeration, and therefore untrustworthy reporters of their own experience.
Except now, there was something more dripping from my ear. I turned my head so that my right ear faced down. Warm liquid gushed out, and then something else. I gasped. I think it struck a chord on a deeper level—the universal fear we’ve all experienced when something is wrong, but no one else can find it. And amongst the female commenters, I noticed, there was a common fury we could all relate to as women who have been toldThe insect crawled out of my ear on a Friday night. I called the triage line at my doctor’s office and was told it was unnecessary to go to the emergency room or Urgent Care, that I could wait until Monday for an appointment.
She prescribed me antibiotic ear-drops. I asked for an ENT referral, as I still felt an itchy, crawling sensation accompanying some residual ringing and buzzing. She said that wasn’t necessary and left the room—as usual—without saying goodbye. A few days later—my ear still ringing, itching, and now spasming in the ear canal—I called the office for a referral.“I’ve already seen her three times,” I said. “She won’t give me one. Can someone else in the practice please refer me?”So I went in again, and again she said I didn’t need an ENT.bug
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