Trained by male doctors, operating in a male dominated field.
Find my a skeptic who has done surgery and seen the endometrial overgrowth on someone’s organs.
Find my a skeptic who has done surgery and seen the endometrial overgrowth on someone’s organs.
Your second point is spot on though. A doctor that suffered the disease or has seen it first hand will approach it differently.
I constantly hear non-medical people talk about how “only female doctors understand because they’re women”. What crap.
The very same people when facing cancer magically don’t require a doctor who has had cancer. Suddenly they just want the most qualified.
The problem lies much more in over-specialization, rapid patient turn-around, patient demand that treatments be easy, pills, and yes, training in how patients (fe|male) communicate and feel pain, illness, etc
So if the woman is going to family medicine doctor, or their OB/GYN, for this abdominal pain / diagnosed endometriosis, more likely it's a female doctor. The idea that it's 99.9% misogynistic men is anachronistic, especially so in these fields - and the persistence of that idea, to a degree, has resulted in misandrist kickback on the basis of the misogynistic man boogeyman