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I'm Dr. Aviva Rong. This week I want to talk with you about something that I think is incredibly important.

How medical gender bias is killing women and how to save your own life.

Medicine has a lot of terms I dislike. Historically these have included phrases like incompetent service. like,

historically these have included phrases like incompetent cervix

and failure to progress in labor

because they put the blame on the woman's body.

She's incompetent.

She's failed. But the word that bothers me the most these

days is part of the daily medical lexicon. It appears at the top of every single medical chart of every single patient in the country.

It's the first thing your doctor sees after seeing your name.

It's chief complaint. It's the word complaint that bothers me because it's killing women.

From the time where little girls were taught not to complain,

in the more modern day grown-up spiritual world, we're kind of told that too in the form of

have gratitude every time something's bothering us. We've learned somewhere along the line that voicing our real needs,

expressing our dissatisfactions, our discomfort, our pain is whining.

It's complaining.

So we don't complain, For example, when we're in our late 40s or early 50s and suddenly

tired for a few days, are nauseated, don't feel right, maybe feel more anxious than usual and have a bit of heaviness in our

chests. We might not complain our way right through a heart attack.

Keeping silent is killing women literally. Words like complaint reflect the bias of a system that belittles women.

We are, for example, likely to convince ourselves that serious symptoms are nothing in order not to complain about it.

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