Women presenting to the emergency department in pain are less likely to receive medications they need to treat it compared to men, new research shows.
An analysis of discharge notes of more than 21,000 patients from Missouri and Israel showed that female patients were less likely to be prescribed pain meds, and their symptoms were more likely to be dismissed.
Dr Alex Gileles-Hillel, a co-author and doctor at Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center in Jerusalem, said: ‘Women are viewed as exaggerating or hysterical and men are viewed as more stoic when they complain of pain.’
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