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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWomen's health concerns are dismissed more, studied less
This story appears in the January 2020 issue of National Geographic magazine.As an emergency medicine physician since the mid-1990s, Ive cared for all sorts of patients: old and young, rich and poor, male and female. Ive also observed the companions who arrive with the patients, as they scramble to handle this health crisis amid work, family, and financial obligations. Often that burden lands chiefly on women, doing double, triple, quadruple duty to care for children, partners, parents, and other loved ones. Its a global phenomenon: The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development says the worlds women spend more than 1.1 trillion hours a year on unpaid care of children and the elderly. Men spend about a third as much.
As an executive producer on the television drama Greys Anatomy, I write these women into scripts. They are mothers, partners, wives, sisters, daughters, CEOs, and secretaries. The woman who just had a baby, thinks she has a blocked milk duct, and finds out too late that its breast cancer. The woman who doesnt want to admit to being raped because she thinks shell be blamed for being where she was or wearing what she wore.
Theyre women who have a terminal illness, or need an organ transplantand have to break it to their daughters. Women confronting their sexuality head-on; getting pregnant at older ages and choosing alternate paths to motherhood, or being childless by choice. Women with brain tumors, mental illness, and depression; women with no insurance, and women who could buy the world.
I write these women because I see these women. Because I am these women. I am firmly stuck in the sandwich generation, taking care of an aging mother and three young children. Working full-time. Juggling schools, schedules, extracurricular activities, babysitters, deadlines, caregivers, and professional goals, all while trying to have a semblance of a social life. I am a physician, I am a writer, I am a mother, I am a single woman. I am everywoman, we are multitudesand we are frequently, quietly, overwhelmed.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2020/01/womens-health-concerns-are-dismissed-more-studied-less-feature/?cmpid=org=ngp::mc=crm-email::src=ngp::cmp=editorial::add=NatGeoPlus_20191222&rid=FB26C926963C5C9490D08EC70E179424
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Women's health concerns are dismissed more, studied less (Original Post)
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
Dec 2019
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PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,862 posts)1. And from the beginning of modern medicine, virtually every single
trial has involved men. Men only. Probably only white men.
At the risk of being obvious, men and women are not identical. Medicines and treatments do not work the same for each gender. Or every different race or ethnic group or however you want to name those differences.