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Aging Alone—Finding Strength and Connection

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Well, good for you! The fact that you are questioning my experience as a woman just proves my point. Are you male?
Every time I walk into a doctors office, their voice changes. It goes up an octave as if they are speaking to a child. I have to remind them I am a 58 year old woman, not a toddler. If your blunt and express your needs clearly, you're difficult. Any symptom you have is dismissed or written off as whiny woman syndrome. It happens to young women, too. Just the fact that can get a vasectomy referral without any long discussions says it all. Just because you didn't notice medical bias does not mean it does not exist.
https://magazine.hms.harvard.edu/articles/how-gender-bias-medicine-has-shaped-womens-health
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/interactive/2022/women-pain-gender-bias-doctors/

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I am a 65 year old woman.

I’m not saying you haven’t experienced what you say you have. And I’m not saying there is no medical bias.

I’m just saying I’m puzzled by your comment, the one I quoted, because I have never experienced it. At least, not as it relates to age, which is what you specified (women over 50).

I was asking for examples, not denying your experience as a woman.