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This 5 page report discusses. The ways in which the modern medical system in the United States treats women unfairly. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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in treatment, the fact of the matter is that women do not receive an equitable treatment by the health professionals and medical researchers. Abraham (1997) refers to the "myth
of the sexist doctor," claiming that a physicians specialty or biases seemed to influence diagnosis more than gender. On the other hand, according to Colburn
(1996), women are less likely than men, and minority patients less likely than whites, to undergo high-tech medical procedures, including heart bypass surgery, pacemaker implants and hip replacement, a study
shows. Researchers say there are many reasons for the differences, including patient preference, barriers to health care, clinical differences among groups, as well as racial and gender bias. Colburn
(1996) sites a study based on hospital records in California during 1989 and 1990. Researchers, health care economists and epidemiologists, looked at patients undergoing nine medical procedures and compared the
rates for four ethnic groups: whites, blacks, Hispanics and Asians. The figures were also adjusted to rule out bias that may exist based on the differences in insurance coverage. The
nine procedures included coronary bypass surgery, angioplasty, defibrillator implants, pacemakers, heart transplants, carotid endarterectomy, kidney transplants, hip replacement and lithotripsy (using shock waves to break up kidney stones). Results
demonstrated that women are, indeed, less likely to receive more "sophisticated" or more invasive procedures than men. The introduction of the concept of
gender in medical practice and health care delivery was originally put forward, according to Richters (1997), as an important analytical tool to bring a greater level of attention to womens
views, needs and interests. Such an effort required exposing male bias in traditional medical approaches leading to ideologically distorted views of women and their needs and a neglect of those
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