Women Are Dying Because Doctors Treat Us Like Men
For years, physicians have assumed they can treat both genders the same way. But it's costing women their lives.
Hasnain says:
"Only one in eight female heart-attack patients report feeling chest pain, the classic warning sign in men; instead, 71 percent of women have flu-like symptoms."
This is horrifying: I always assumed chest pain was like the One True Indicator for a heart attack. And the article gets even scarier later:
"The study on the interaction between flibanserin and alcohol was conducted on 25 human subjects—23 of whom were male— even though the drug is prescribed only to women."
Posted on 2017-05-01T22:30:07+0000