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Sarah Is In Pain, No One Is Listening: How Doctors Take Women’s Pain Less Seriously

When mysterious, debilitating symptoms struck my girlfriend, our trip to the ER revealed the sexism inherent in emergency treatment.

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Early on a Monday morning, I heard an anguished cry—then silence.

I rushed into the bedroom and watched my girlfriend, Sarah, stumble from the bathroom, doubled over, hugging herself in pain.

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