Gender equality in medicine
Below is the topic that I have coosen for my essay. I will attatch the instrutor given sheet with instructions.
I am choosing to do my paper on gender equality in medicine, focusing on how male, female, and patients of other genders are treated differently. I feel that this topic is important in getting the correct treatment of all genders so that they get the medical care that they need. In medicine today women tend to be under treated for pain, and in some circumstances are unable to receive treatment that they need or want because of their gender and/or age. I feel that research in this topic is important so that the inequalities can be brought to the attention of others and then maybe someday things can change.
I chose this topic because as a female with many female nieces it is important that medical care needed to keep patients healthy is available to those who need it. I will not get into the discussion as to whether certain treatments are okay to do or not, but rather how some care is not available to someone because they are female. I am working towards being able to work within a hospital or medical office, and would hope that the providers that I work for would treat everyone equally. Gender equality in health means “that people of all genders should have access to the healthcare they need.” (Gender Equality in Health https://www.paho.org/en/topics/gender-equality-health). I find it fascinating and disturbing that complaints of patients are ignored or just passed off as someone acting with hysteria or anxiety, and because of this they are left untreated. It seems that this treatment of patients is not only done by male providers, that it is seen by providers of all genders.
