Il servizio sanitario nazionale delude le donne attraverso la “misoginia medica”, afferma il rapporto | La salute delle donne
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/mar/08/nhs-letting-women-down-medical-misogyny-report
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I don’t doubt that many women do feel “dismissed, ignored and not believed” by medical professionals, but I don’t know why people think the NHS roll out a red carpet for men and give them a blank prescription pad.
That hadn’t been my experience, it hasn’t been the experience of any man I know.
Not only are we much, much less likely to ask for medical help, when we do, we get the same pushback.
Honestly medical misogyny goes all the way to the top. Researchers don’t approve studies that centre women, research only very recently involved women, which means the guidelines are not made for women, which colours the entire way they are treated, and that’s not even to say anything about doctors who hold misogynistic beliefs.
If you are a woman or if you’ve ever spoken to a woman trying to get help for any condition (and god forbid that she is overweight or disabled or an ethnic minority) you know exactly what this article is talking about
A poll by mumsnet where responders ‘felt’ they were dismissed due to gender… slightly different from a conclusive report.
Men get dismissed just as often, just in different places and for different reasons. Mental health, for example. When I was going through a period of severe medical depression, I had to see a male GP in order to get prescribed the medication I needed to get back on track. The female GP I saw basically told me to “man up”.
Men in the comments dismissing this.
In August I had to get a blood transfusion after getting dismissed after losing 2 litres of blood during a 2 week long period and being told it’s normal. I was weak and pale and had been passing out a lot across the week, it was only when my male partner escorted me that they took me seriously.
My blood count was so severely low when they finally sent me for the transfusion.
Nobody is saying men don’t experience getting dismissed about medical issues, it’s just that it happens to women a lot just because they’re women.
All medical research is evidence based on male physiology. Only in the last three decades have women been considered for biological differences.
Conditions and medications are documented on how they affect men. Apart from when it affects foetuses.
NHS Scotland proposed saving money by not using lubricant in cervical smears and other gynaecological tests and procedures. You can guarantee handfuls of the stuff get thrown at people getting prostate exams.
If women are dismissed, why are 57 %of secondary appointments in the NHS for women? Dismissal would imply fewer referrals for expert opinion not more.
Similarly why are more GP appointments taken by women?
How do we explain medical mysogyny in a system composed of 75 % plus female staff with over 50% female medics.
Took something like 5 years to convince doctors that there was something wrong with my wife. After enough pushing and insistence, she was diagnosed with PCOS.
She was also dismissed by a GP asking “are you sure you’re not just a bit sad” when she went in about her clinical depression.
My sister had to push (no pun intended) to get a C-section when she was 2 days into labour and her daughter had not moved.
When I (a guy) went in with symptoms of diabetes, almost instantly believed (even though I was missing some of the typical symptoms of T2 diabetes) and diagnosed within a week.
Anecdotal, I’m aware, but examples of how the genders are treated differently.
This isn’t so much a gendered issue, and more, can’t be arsed mentality which is a plague in the system? My old man in the past 3 years suffered two heart attacks, and a stroke. In Jan, he called up and took him a full hour to speak with the GP after suffering through the bullshit with the self-proclaimed Guardains of God – the fucking reciptionist(she also kept telling him his problem wasn’t a problem) – before he got through to speaking to the doctor.
He had chest pains again, and last time he mentioned this(he called the previous day), was told “it’s all in your head”. GP said the same thing this time to him. He passed away at 2am that day from another heart attack.
I had to wait two months to see a new GP after my last one laughed her arse off when I asked for breast cancer screening with her and I quote ‘men don’t get breast cancer!’. I have a family history with men getting breast cancer, and it’s regular examination I go through. My old GP had retired.
I think condescending is becoming a required trait to work in the NHS nowadays.
The NHS works on the principal of diagnosing you in 30 seconds.
If it takes longer then that they are at best useless and indifferent, at worse actively hostile.
My wife when she slipped a disc was told it was period pain and when she said it had been going on for longer then a week she was told to stop being difficult and told to bother her GP if she wanted to skive off work.