French woman was told by doctors hantavirus symptoms were just anxiety

The Girl Who Cried Pain: A Bias against Women in the Treatment of Pain https://philpapers.org/rec/HOFTGW-3

Sex bias in pain management decisions https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2401331121

Gender Bias and Diagnostic Delays in Young Women: A Narrative Review https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12829432/

There is a huge body of research that shows systematic downplaying, ignoring and rating women's health and pain concerns much lower than they are.

> This article, headlined “French woman was told by doctors hantavirus symptoms were just anxiety”, was removed on 12 May 2026 after the Guardian was notified of a fundamental misunderstanding of remarks from Javier Padilla Bernáldez. The Spanish health secretary had been describing a separate case involving a person who was not confirmed to have hantavirus, not the French woman who had tested positive after evacuation from the ship.

I had all sorts of real physical symptoms that I spent years going to doctors for. Some of them took me seriously. Some told me it is in my head.

If I had ChatGPT, I would have solved them much earlier and lived a better life.