A recent study published by the National Library of Medicine revealed that women presenting with acute abdominal pain are 25% less likely than men to receive opioid painkillers, underscoring a gender bias in medical treatment.
In a troubling finding, middle-aged women experiencing chest pain and heart disease symptoms were diagnosed with mental illness at double the rate of men with comparable symptoms, exemplifying systemic bias in healthcare diagnosis.
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