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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just meant it's a very common tactic doctors use to avoid taking the effort to properly diagnose women. There's so many stories women tell of having years or decades of that dismissal, and finally finding out they had a treatable condition (or combination of conditions) all along.