Gender Bias in Medical Treament and You: How does being a woman affect how you receive medical care?
I'll start this off by explaining that this blog is made out of a personal struggle that I and many of my friends face day in and day out. And I have made excuses for the lack of treatment I receive in numerous ways until I watched John Oliver's coverage on this issues that seems to expand way past myself. I would recommend that everyone watches this video as an introduction to the serious consequences that can put our health, if not our very lives, at risk. While we might assume that bias in health care is relic of the past, back where women would be labeled hysterical or quickly deemed insane for inane reasons (6). Today's bias can still affect everything from clinical trials to heart attacks. John Oliver mentions in his video that clinical trials were based on men because men was considered the "standard" and there has been movement in changing this (1). Currently, any clinical trial that is funded by National Institutes of Heal...