At Thu, 25 Jul 2002, Helen Dynda wrote:
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>When Women's Pain is Ignored - by Nancy F. Petersen, RN
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>http://www.obgyn.net/endo/articles/petersen_0699.htm
>I excerpted this paragraph; because as you read it, you may recognize that this has happened to you too!!
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>"Having worked in the healthcare field for 35 years, I cannot recall the number of times I have heard or seen active, overt references to the dismissal of women's complaints and/or symptoms, often in the presence of abnormal physical findings and/or loss of function. These obvious physical findings may not fit a clear disease definition as we know it, but women have been labeled as "neurotic," "hysterical," "conversion reactions" and/or "insignificant"
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>Please click on the above Url to read the entire article.
-- Mary Wade