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S11 E04: The gender health divide: Bias in practice

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Carol explains the cruel irony that women with lupus have their exhaustion and pain written off as stress, while men with the same symptoms trigger immediate testing.
Host Isabel O'Brien interviews expert Carol about systemic gender bias in healthcare, focusing on how women face delayed diagnoses across conditions like Parkinson's and lupus, and how historic exclusion from clinical trials affects modern drug safety and efficacy. The conversation also explores the impact of low female representation in medical specialties like cardiology.

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A clear look at how diagnostic bias and trial design shape patient outcomes.

This piece treats diagnostic bias as a concrete problem rather than an abstract one: when diagnosis goes off course, treatment tends to follow it.

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If you want the clearest case for why medical bias changes outcomes, start here.

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