by Carolyn Thomas ♥ @HeartSisters
A cardiologist who teaches medical students at a prominent medical school was asked if his students were learning about the known disparities in cardiac research, diagnostics, treatment and outcomes in female heart patients compared to our male counterparts. His answer basically was: “If we start taking up time to talk about women, we’d have to stop teaching one of the equally important subjects in our curriculum.” See also: Women’s Heart Health: Why it’s NOT a Zero Sum Game
That reluctant conversation-stopper may help to explain what cardiac researchers keep reminding us: physicians now in practice likely received little if any specific med school training in women’s health aside from reproductive health issues. And as Emergency physician Dr. Alyson McGregor at Brown University reminds her colleagues:
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