Medical dismissals of women’s pain mask underlying chronic disease processes

Evidence

In those days, if a young man said he had a pain, the doctors listened to his heart, took his blood pressure, examined the bit of him he was complaining about. But women patients—especially young women—were routinely suspected of casting mental distress into the form of physical symptoms. — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 221 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

The strange pain that was no known pain was the beginning of a disease process that left me infertile by the age of twenty-seven, and which leaves me, even today, an unwilling stranger in my own body. — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 226 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
• XREF: connects to: Doctors in the 1970s dismissed young women’s physical pains as psychological — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 221; An undiagnosed pain at nineteen began a disease leaving lifelong infertility — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 226

Related

• Doctors in the 1970s dismissed young women’s physical pains as psychological (similarity 0.90)
• An undiagnosed pain at nineteen began a disease leaving lifelong infertility (similarity 0.89)

Broader Connections

• Doctors in the 1970s dismissed young women’s physical pains as psychological #exemplifies (0.90) — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 221
• An undiagnosed pain at nineteen began a disease leaving lifelong infertility #exemplifies (0.85) — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 226