The author(s)
Sydney Feldman
Guest(s)
Dr. Stacey Rosen
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Podcast Overview
According to Duke Health “One in five women say they have felt that a health care provider has ignored or dismissed their symptoms, and 17% say they feel they have been treated differently because of their gender.”1 This statistic alone provides reasoning into the need for exploring possible causes for reported acts of discrimination and the gender gap existing in medical institutions.2
In this first episode, I am joined by Dr. Stacey Rosen, vice president at the Katz Institute for Women’s Health at North Shore – LIJ Health System. Dr. Rosen, a practicing cardiologist and echocardiographer, has devoted her career to increasing awareness of women’s health issues, in particular heart disease, throughout her community and beyond.
Our conversation is focused on gender disparities, in particular the treatment of female patients in medical settings. We discuss how patients are treated based on complaints of pain, the historically prevailing “male-model” of medical research, and how biases (particularly gender biases) contribute to the patient experience. We also discuss how medical care and the gender gap has changed since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic.