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Re:Report: 90% of nurses considering leaving the profession ... by drc500free on Wednesday April 27, 2022 @01:10PM (#31182748)
I'm more and more convinced that POTS/EDS/MCAS aren't rare diseases, they're just criminally under-diagnosed because they tend to affect women. FWIW, POTS is much more manageable with medication (e.g. Midodrine and Florinef).
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Re:Report: 90% of nurses considering leaving the profession ... by 77pt77 on Wednesday April 27, 2022 @01:26PM (#31183003)
> criminally under-diagnosed because they tend to effect women

I just can't understand this argument. Women already live 5 years longer than men on average. You mean to tell me if the system didn't discriminate so strongly against their best interest they'd live even longer than men?

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Re:Report: 90% of nurses considering leaving the profession ... by Djvacto on Wednesday April 27, 2022 @11:47PM (#31188519)
Responding to both you and the comment above/below you:

Women have a hard time getting symptoms, esp around pain, taken seriously. Oftentimes these symptoms are downplayed or ignored, regardless of the sex/gender of the medical professional.

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Re:Report: 90% of nurses considering leaving the profession ... by 77pt77 on Thursday April 28, 2022 @04:47PM (#31197998)
Again. If they are discriminated so strongly against, why do they live 5 years longer on average?

It's like you completely disregarded my comment and decided instead to just proselytize.

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Re:Report: 90% of nurses considering leaving the profession ... by kalleboo on Saturday April 30, 2022 @10:36AM (#31216398)
Because of biology? Other female primates (chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans, etc) also live longer than males.

I don't understand your argument. Just because women live longer on average, they're supposed to live in pain without treatment?

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Re:Report: 90% of nurses considering leaving the profession ... by 77pt77 on Sunday May 01, 2022 @08:36PM (#31230155)
My argument is that if there was a significant bias against them then that gap would not exist or be much smaller.

In reality they get about 7 times the allocated health expenditure that males get.

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Re:Report: 90% of nurses considering leaving the profession ... by ejb999 on Wednesday April 27, 2022 @02:25PM (#31183821)
nurses are 91% female and doctors are about 37% female - are they also 'criminally under-diagnosing'? Seems there are quite a few more women in healthcare than men these days.
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