Data reveal how doctors take women’s pain less seriously than men’s

From Nature:

Physicians treat men and women differently when it comes to pain — women in hospital wait longer to be seen and are less likely to receive pain medication than men, finds a study comparing how pain is perceived and treated in male and female patients.

The findings, published on 5 August in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences1, highlight how our perception of others’ experiences of pain can be affected by unconscious bias.