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Now imagine being not just a woman, but a black woman. I've have literally seen nurses dismiss women home in the ER saying "you people think this is a hotel, crying harder won't get us to move you into a room" while they're crying in pain
Womens pain is often dismissed by medical professionals as them "exaggerating". Medical misogyny is very real and it kills women. >

I was in my 50s when this dawned on me. I remember another woman telling me that medical misogyny was a thing and I started to cry. It was like a movie running through my head as I started to remember every god damn time I have been dismissed. But then I started thinking of how my husband is treated. His last hospital visit was for a kidney stone. He got a private room with a view. I shit you not.