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Diagnosis Female - by Emily Dwass (Paperback)

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  • Being a woman in the health care system is inherently hazardous to your health.
  • About the Author: Emily Dwass has written about health, food and cultural issues for numerous publications, including The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, LA Weekly, and the Chicago Tribune.
  • 240 Pages
  • Health + Wellness, Diseases

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Being a woman in the health care system is inherently hazardous to your health. Women often experience misdiagnosis and ignorance of their symptoms, in part because for centuries females were excluded from important medical research. This work reveals the gender bias that can ...



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Being a woman in the health care system is inherently hazardous to your health. Women often experience misdiagnosis and ignorance of their symptoms, in part because for centuries females were excluded from important medical research. This work reveals the gender bias that can cause harm. Tips and tools guide women to better health outcomes.



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A smart and supremely telling addition to the vital body of work by women transforming pain into power.

Emily Dwass offers an accessible and forceful addition to the growing chorus exposing the deep-seated gender bias within medicine. Diagnosis Female will speak to any woman whose voice has gone unheard at the doctor's office.

In conversations about the deficiencies of the medical-industrial complex, we often forget to center those who bear the brunt of medical oppression: the most marginalized. Women, people of color, disabled people, and more - and worse so, folks at intersections of those identities - are ignored. But these experiences, when uncovered, bring to light the most egregious treatment by the medical community. With Diagnosis Female, Dwass bravely offers readers a look into medical misogyny, validating women's common experiences in doctors' offices, with both wit and candor. And in doing so, she reveals that our culture is the most sick of all

In Diagnosis Female: How Medical Bias Endangers Women's Health, Emily Dwass masterfully takes on the medical establishment for overlooking and sometimes perilously ignoring the unique medical symptoms and needs of women. She tackles this complex topic with deep knowledge of the history of medical research, current clinical practice and a medical education system that has too often turned its head away from sexual harassment within its ranks and intentionally disadvantaged female professionals. She does this by interweaving statistical data from academic studies of gender disparities in health care treatment and outcomes, anecdotes from women who have been disbelieved and embarrassed by uncaring doctors, and by sharing bits and pieces of her own medical journey which astonishingly includes a brain tumor that was misdiagnosed for four years. While the book is thoroughly researched, it is written with sympathetic insight and even a touch of humor.

Prior to 1993, women were excluded from participating in medical research as case study subjects, just one piece of shocking information discovered in this work by food and health journalist Dwass. The author combines her experience of being diagnosed with a benign brain tumor after years of living with a misdiagnosis of Guillain-Barré syndrome with interviews with other women who have survived major health scares and dismissal of their symptoms by physicians. She notes several areas of specialty--neurology, obstetrics and gynecology, cardiology, and chronic diseases--to detail women's struggles, and how they navigate physician egos, gender and racial bias, and symptoms classified as anxiety or panic attacks. Advocating for more female doctors, particularly more African American female physicians (currently only two percent of U.S. doctors are black women), Dwass also emphasizes the salary gap in medicine, with women earning 26.5 percent less than men. . . . A solid addition to the growing field of female patient advocacy.

Women are not the weaker sex, they are the less studied sex, and as a result, their health suffers. Journalist Dwass reveals how medical research has long over-focused on men, leading to misdiagnosis, mistreatment, or no treatment for women. Even most brain studies have been conducted on male animals. Why? Often it's unconscious gender bias. What can women do to counter this aberration? A lot, according to Dwass. Don't suffer. Ignore "it's all in your head" comments. Get multiple opinions. Ask what tests are available. While focusing on cardiology, chronic diseases, gynecology, and neurology (she had a benign brain tumor), Dwass also touches on sexual harassment in the medical world, and offers inspiring portraits of female physicians who have cracked the glass ceiling and improved the field. One woman, for example, taught fellow doctors how to perform painless breast and pelvic exams. Some valuable parting tips for readers seeking diagnosis: Believe in yourself and what Dwass calls "the truth of your symptoms," and find healthcare providers who trust you and listen to you.



About the Author



Emily Dwass has written about health, food and cultural issues for numerous publications, including The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, LA Weekly, and the Chicago Tribune. She also has written television and movie scripts for the entertainment industry.
Dimensions (Overall): 9.0 Inches (H) x 6.0 Inches (W) x .55 Inches (D)
Weight: .79 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 240
Genre: Health + Wellness
Sub-Genre: Diseases
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Theme: General
Format: Paperback
Author: Emily Dwass
Language: English
Street Date: February 8, 2022
TCIN: 1004136288
UPC: 9781538164716
Item Number (DPCI): 247-25-0055
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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