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halfulglas

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3. They've known this for almost 50 years but they just want to tweak things.
Tue Dec 13, 2022, 04:59 PM
Dec 2022

They should really have equal numbers of men and women in the research but the models for the research are set up for the men. Also, when women complain to their doctors of side effects, they are more often brushed aside, at least until the men start complaining, because most doctors assume that women are complainers. Sometimes they aren't even in the patient notes that the patient complained (I know, ex-medical transcriptionist here). I had reactions to every statin I have ever been on and registered complaints and what they were, but going over them with a new provider, the notes of what the complaints were are not specific at all in my records - and before my old doctor left the area I really liked him.

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