In 2008, a US National Institutes of Health study found that women in A&E who report acute pain are less likely than men to be given opioid painkillers - and they wait longer to receive them. Another Swedish study, published in 2014, found women waited longer than men to see a doctor in a hospital emergency department. This bias is amplified when it comes to reproductive health.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original article at https://patient.info/news-and-features/is-womens-pain-taken-seriously