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America's healthcare system is suffering from a medical community burdened with discrimination and intolerance which has degraded what medicine is meant to do: help and heal.
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America's healthcare system is suffering from a medical community burdened with discrimination and intolerance which has degraded what medicine is meant to do: help and heal. In an attempt to produce "objective" results in clinical trials the predominantly male scientific community has created a medical order that is entrenched in gender bias from clinical research to diagnosis and treatment. Research has created a androcentric body of knowledge that has been perpetuated through use of male experiential animals and exclusion of women from clinical trials due to certain inconsistencies in their physiology. While women make up the majority of doctor's visits, they are considerably under diagnosed. Through stereotypes of women that are sustained by those in the medical community, women are often misdiagnosed as merely hypochondriacs or melodramatic. Lesbians are often held to "typical" research regarding "female diseases" and are thus not diagnosed for such common illnesses as alcoholism and breast...
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