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Introduction: The Gap Between Symptom Onset and Diagnosis megan murkovski a university student came to
The Gendered History of Medical Dismissal The dismissal of women’s pain is not a bug in the biomedical system; it is a historical feature. The 19th-century diagnosis of “hysteria”—from the Greek hystera (uterus)—pathologized female emotional and physical distress as a wandering womb. While the term has been abandoned, its epistemic structure persists. Hoffman and Tarzian (2001) found that women’s pain reports are more likely to be labeled “emotional” or “exaggerated” than men’s identical reports. More recently, Samulowitz et al. (2018) demonstrated that female patients with chronic pain wait longer for specialist referrals and receive less analgesic medication than male patients with identical symptoms. Megan Murkovski: A University Student's Journey to Success
When asked what advice she would give to the next Megan—the quiet freshman sitting in a poorly lit dorm room, frustrated by a broken system—she doesn't hesitate. Hoffman and Tarzian (2001) found that women’s pain
Megan Murkovski: A University Student's Journey to Success
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