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- From: payner@netcom.com (Rich Payne)
- Subject: Re: Mysogynist Bullshit
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.045920.2170@netcom.com>
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- References: <1992Dec10.142534.16313@cs.cornell.edu> <1hshirINNh85@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <1992Dec30.171309.17092@llyene.jpl.nasa.gov>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 04:59:20 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec30.171309.17092@llyene.jpl.nasa.gov> julie@eddie.jpl.nasa.gov (Julie Kangas) writes:
- >In article <1hshirINNh85@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> axb39@po.CWRU.Edu (Ann Burlingham) writes:
- >>
- >>>Curiously, women seek medical aid more often than men, even excluding
- >>>gyn/obs visits. It may be true that women have more capacity for endurance,
- >>>but in practice, it would seem that they do not use it. Kinda makes one
- >>>wonder.
- >>
- >>I don't see the logic here. Maybe it's like the "women have to be twice as
- >>good as men to be thought half so" thing - how do you know women aren't
- >>enduring more? Checked any domestic violence (i.e., long-term sustained
- >>endurance) statistics lately?
- >>
- >
- >I think it's exactly that -- women have to be twice as sick to be taken
- >seriously.
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- You are saying that they go more often because they do not get treatment?
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- > Of course, once you're that ill treatment is much harder
- >and takes longer. Science News reported on a study that showed women
- >were much less likely to get needed medicines and sugeries for heart
- >problems.
-
- I recall that article. But I doubt that most women, most of the time see
- the doctor because of heart problems. And the study I read (also in
- _Science_News_ as I recall, showed a significant difference in the number
- of visits. Something like 30% more, although I do not recall clearly.
-
- > Many doctors brushed off women's complaints until they became
- >very serious. Women are more likely to die in heart surgery primarily
- >because their health at the time is much worse than men undergoing
- >the surgery. The reason that their health was so bad was because
- >they had to wait longer before a doctor would operate.
-
- Are you willing (and able) to extend this specific case generally?
- BTW, as I recall, women are still much less likely to have heart problems.
-
- >Julie
- >DISCLAIMER: All opinions here belong to my cat and no one else
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- Rich
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- payner@netcom.com
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