Re:Life expectancy for American men drops for a third year
by wavepruner on Friday November 01, 2019 @11:30AM
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I'm a man and I have a condition that is poorly understood by the medical community. The lack of respect is glaringly obvious when I interact with nurses and doctors. I have discussed this phenomenon with hundreds of men and woman, so I do not think it's gender/sex based discrimination.
Re:Life expectancy for American men drops for a third year
by benchaney on Friday November 01, 2019 @01:15PM
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The existence of women’s issues doesn’t invalidate GP’s point. It’s not clear to me why you think it is relevant at all.
Re:Life expectancy for American men drops for a third year
by 50656E6973 on Friday November 01, 2019 @09:57AM
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Your anecdotal dismissal supports the parent commenter's point.
Re:Life expectancy for American men drops for a third year
by clmul on Friday November 01, 2019 @10:08AM
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It's fairly well-known that there is more medical knowledge about men, and women are affected in different ways by diseases, about which more knowledge is needed.
See for example this article: https://www.ft.com/content/7864ae80-9597-11e8-95f8-8640db906...
Re:Life expectancy for American men drops for a third year
by 50656E6973 on Friday November 01, 2019 @10:18AM
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Indeed. And yet life expectancy is still lower for men, and is getting worse. Can we not talk about that for a moment?
Re:Life expectancy for American men drops for a third year
by clmul on Friday November 01, 2019 @10:57AM
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Sure we can, but I don't think it's very productive to start arguing that society doesn't care about men's issues. I don't immediately see what society has to do with the lower life expectancy:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_expectancy#Sex_difference...
Please. My wife recently had some health issues due to a condition that primarily affects women, and I went with her to her medical appointments. The level of casual dismissal I saw regarding pain and symptoms from numerous (male and female) doctors was absolutely shocking. While I've certainly had doctors fail to resolve a medical condition before, nothing like the lack of respect I saw had ever accompanied my interactions at a doctor's office. If you genuinely believe that "society doesn't care about men's issues", at least compared to women's issues, you're living in an absolute fantasy world.