I don’t have a lot of time this week, but let’s start with some women’s medical news!
How can women advocate for themselves when it comes to health?
Learn about your condition from reputable sources, find a specialist, be prepared, enlist support, keep records, ask questions until you fully understand your doctor’s advice.
I appreciate people trying to help. OTOH — Kinda pisses me off that we are expected to do so much of the work!
Hey docs: How to properly treat your patients: Keep learning about common women’s conditions, be ready and willing to refer to specialists, be prepared, be supportive, familiarize yourself with your patients’ records (I have often been appalled how little of my history my doctors remember and how much appointment time is eaten up with my reminders!), and ask questions until you fully understand your patients’ concerns!
Better Science, Better Medicine: How Clinical Research Advances Women’s Health:
One challenge in particular is being able to successfully include patients’ different perspectives, backgrounds, and feedback into the conversation from the start of the trial. By doing so, researchers can account for real-world challenges — work schedules, caregiving duties, transportation — and identify solutions that would make participation more accessible for all, particularly in this case — women. And with continuous feedback loops in place, researchers can catch and address obstacles more rapidly, refining future studies to be more inclusive and effective.
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But progress is not self-sustaining. Momentum must be fed. As medicine advances and patient needs evolve, so too must the methods we rely on to test and deliver new treatments. The commitment to this evolution through ecosystem-wide collaboration will push clinical research forward.
Because better trials lead to better science. And better science leads to better health — for every patient, everywhere.
Women’s History Month: AAMC: Celebrating 10 women medical pioneers:
These inspiring women endured poverty, deep-seated stereotypes, and discrimination, but they went on to build hospitals, win a Nobel Prize, lead a medical school, and dramatically improve the health of millions. Read their incredible stories.
If you kept up with officebss’ WOW2, some (most? all?) of the names and stories at the linky will be familiar to you!
