If you're a woman with joint problems, what has your experience been with the health

[CBC News]

Women complaining of knee pain are less likely than men to be recommended for total knee replacement surgery, a study in Tuesday's issue of the Canadian Medical Association Journal suggests.
Toronto researchers conducted the study with two standardized or "mystery" patients, one male and one female, both with moderate knee osteoarthritis, reporting the same symptoms and similar lifestyles.
Each patient visited 67 doctors in Ontario who consented to include their data in the study. Thirty-eight were family physicians, while 29 were orthopedic surgeons.
The results showed that the physicians visited were twice as likely to recommend total knee replacement surgery, known as arthroplasty, to the male patient as to the female patient.
Lead author Dr. Cornelia Borkhoff of Toronto said the research suggests a gender bias in the treatment of patients who need orthopedic surgery.
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If you're a woman with joint problems, what has your experience been with the health care system?



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[Nuggler]

Women with joint problems are usually prescribed total knee replacement if it's necessary; at least around here. (google x-rays, great new invention) I can name six offhand, mostly retired nurses who pounded cement floors for 30+ odd years.

Are we trying to spin this into a feminist thing?

No doubt.

 

[karrie]

Women with joint problems are usually prescribed total knee replacement if it's necessary; at least around here. (google x-rays, great new invention) I can name six offhand, mostly retired nurses who pounded cement floors for 30+ odd years.

Are we trying to spin this into a feminist thing?

No doubt.

Nurses wouldn't really be a good example though Nugg, since they're given more credibility.

This isn't the first that I hear in medical articles about women being, well, wusses, and their pain complaints being listened to with a grain of salt. On the flip side, men are perceived as 'strong' and if they complain about pain it must be worse than they say. It's a common bias, and not really a feminist issue, more of a standard of care issue. Patients need to be taken on an individual basis (I've known women with wicked high pain tolerances, and men who were wusses), rather than letting biases play into medical care.

 

[Nuggler]

Yah, true.

 

[Nuggler]

Yepper

 

[Nuggler]

Totally the reverse Karrie, sorry.

Women are seen to be the more pain tolerant sex. And they are. Think childbirth.

Men, like moi, are such goddam whiners, it's unbelievable.

Whoever wrote those scientific journals should spend some time in the "real world'

Ya think?

I think it's mostly BS in this article.

NO! \\\

8O

 

[tracy]

I've spent time in the real world and this is classic. It's the same for people being treated for cardiac symptoms. Women are assessed differently than men by doctors even when they present with the same symptoms.