The Devastating Effect of Gender Bias in Healthcare - Challenges and Solutions

The Brain Health Revolution Podcast

Dean and Ayesha Sherzai

Life Sciences, Intelligence, Alzheimers, Mood, Mind, Stroke, Brain, Iq, Braincapacity, Anxiety, Brainy, Mental, Depression, Science, Memory, Parkinson, Dementia, Longevity, Health, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 604 Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

In episode # 12, we discuss one of the most important issues in the field of medicine - gender bias in healthcare - which has become an epidemic. Women’s diseases are often missed, misdiagnosed or remains a total mystery. There are tremendous knowledge gaps that are filled with hysteria narratives. Women are more likely to be labeled as “difficult”, “hysterical”, and “hypochondriacs” compared to men presenting with the same diseases. This has major negative consequences for both medical practice and the health of women. Join us as we reveal the profound effect of this bias across multiple diseases and their terrifying consequences, and shed light on ways we can help women get the appropriate attention and treatments for various diseases. We hope you enjoy this episode.

In the next episode, we take a deep dive on why women are affected by Alzheimer's disease disproportionally compared to men. We will expand on the relevant research that has been done to date on the subject, and discuss how the female brain is more susceptible due to various environmental and biological factors.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Brain Health and Beyond podcast with your hosts, Aisha and Dean Shirzai.
0:18.4	It's March and we are celebrating International Women's Day. In this episode,
0:25.2	Dean and I discuss one of the most important issues in the field of medicine, gender bias in
0:31.3	health care, which is an epidemic, unfortunately. Diseases presenting differently in women are often missed or misdiagnosed.
0:40.9	And those affecting mainly women are understudied, undertreated, and frequently misdiagnosed or
0:48.2	undiagnosed. Now this has a major negative consequence for both medical practice and the health of women.
0:56.5	Join us as we discuss these statistics and what we can do to change the system
1:01.4	and help women get the appropriate attention and treatments for various diseases.
1:08.3	Also, for those of you who are interested in learning more about brain health and the
1:13.1	work we're doing across the country with our neuroplan, we recently released a free 14-day
1:19.8	program that will help you take the first steps towards transforming your life and optimizing
1:24.7	your cognitive health. Visit the neuroplan.com and check out the Neuroplan Academy to claim your free copy
1:33.4	and get access to some of our favorite recipes as well.
1:37.9	I hope you enjoy this episode as much as we did.
1:45.7	Mary was a 34-year-old young lady who had a long history of migraines.
1:51.6	Her migraine started when she was in her early teens and had persisted and had debilitated
1:58.4	her throughout her life.
2:00.0	But she had managed to actually finish high school at the top of her class
2:05.0	and finished college summa cum laude and do fairly well,
2:10.4	even in her graduate school, because of frequent treatments with medication,
2:16.2	frequent times that she took off to give her brain a rest.
2:22.0	She did whatever she had to to maintain her sanity and in the face of this horrible disease
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