‘No one would believe me’: Labor launches women’s health council to tackle medical misogyny
by Melissa Davey Medical editor from World news | The Guardian on (#66M7N)
Exclusive: Experts will look into healthcare offered for menstruation, menopause and conditions such as heart disease, autism and cancer
At one point Debra was seeing a GP every two weeks, complaining of severe arm pain that would leave her drenched in sweat and complaining of neck palpitations.
Debra told him, and doctors at her local hospital, that her younger brother went into cardiac arrest aged just 35, and that her grandmother died at 50 following a heart attack. She told doctors she believed her heart was the cause of periodic and unpredictable pain that stopped her in her tracks.
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