Here's a bold solution to women's health care: Train doctors to listen to women.
At the recent announcement of the White House Initiative on Women's Health Research, President Joe Biden and Jill Biden, who will lead the effort, spoke about "the power of research." President Biden remarked on the imbalance in women's health care as compared with men's. Women cannot get better medical care, they both suggested, without more study on disease in women.
This initiative is a positive step toward understanding disease in women. Unfortunately, it ignores the problem primarily responsible for the imbalance between women’s and men's health care: doctors’ reluctance to take women’s symptoms seriously. That problem arises not from lack of research, but from medical training that encourages doctors to attribute women’s symptoms to their psyches.
First, if gender health care inequity were caused by lack of scientific understanding, the inequity wouldn't be uniform. Women suffering from medical problems that are poorly researched by sex or gender would face more problems than women with conditions that are better researched. The fact is, though, that women face obstructed access to the health care they need, as compared with men, across the spectrum of medical conditions.
In cardiology, for example, researchers have been focused on gender and sex-based inequities for more than 30 years. While scientific understanding has certainly improved during this time, women are now more likely to die of heart attack than men, and more likely to be told during a heart attack that their symptoms are not heart-related. We’re still less likely to receive key cardiac treatments, to be treated seriously by EMTs during a heart attack and to be given electrocardiograms when we arrive at the hospital.
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https://www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/2023/12/13/white-house-initiative-womens-health-research-jill-biden-symptoms-diane-oleary
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Ok - hopefully you know I jest.
You are 1000% correct. We have a close friend who is a doc and she's been growing her practice like a weed in the rain, all by word of mouth. The single biggest compliment she says she gets from new female patients is "thank god...someone who's finally listening to me".
And from personal experience, add to it age...we changed docs for my mother (at age 88) to our friend because her previous doc had a common diagnosis for virtually everything bothering her..."you're old". W. T. F.
Anyway - couldn't resist harrasing you a little. Go Browns (oh, that hurt but it's still Ohio!).
The Browns will do their best to make Ohio proud … Lord knows Ohio hasn’t had much to be proud of lately!
I’m glad you found a good listener for your mom’s doc. I can remember my mother throughout her whole life complaining that male doctors were so dismissive. If you were a woman, you got one of two diagnoses for everything … “It’s all in your head” or “Lose some weight.” Even if you took your kid to a pediatrician you got labeled as a “nervous mother”. So now we get “age bashing” too??
I’m glad efforts are being made to remedy this!
Go OHIO! 
a female NP or MD. for that matter men should too! 
