Week 7 notes: Sexism in Medical History

 First women as a physician was in 1850 and was accepted to school in 1847 facing high adversity- Elizabeth Blackwell

Asked to leave when discussing mens health because thought she would be offended

Had to pay 500,000 dollars to john Hopkins university in their time of financial debt to allow women in1890

Rebecca lee crumpler was the first black women to graduate

Wrote book of medical discourses

Congress passed a law in 1993 requiring clinical trials studying diseases and treatments to include women as in studies

, more recent studies show that that has helped but not enough and women are still generally excluded

read the girl who cried pain

Women have a 50% higher chance of getting an incorrect initial diagnosis, even after having a heart attack.

only 43.1 % of students report that their curriculum has given them a better understanding of sex and gender medicine, and only 34.5% report they would feel prepared to manage sex and gender difference in health care.

sources: why women struggle to get diagnosed

women gaining access to medical education john Hopkins university

history of women in medicine university of Alabama 

wise women were town doctors before physicians were a thing

the college of physicians did not allow women in the 1600s

many women practiced from their kitchens

some wealthy women had distilleries

the college of physicians was the turning point as they banned women

accusations of witchcraft were fundamental for causing towns to stop relying on wise women and to shun them

women are paid 87 cents to a dollar despite doing more