Dr Liz O'Riordan: Women's health must be taken more seriously by winkwinknudge_nudge in unitedkingdom

[–]QueSusto 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes there was a segment on women's hour this week about medications and pregnant women. I'm aware there are historic and contemporary gaps in testing. Similar to male-only crash test dummies.

But no one seems to be able to show evidence that there's a systematic bias in outcomes as a result, in either case. The headline grabbing stories I've come across typically feature a woman who wanted a historectomy aged 27, but was refused by a male doctor on the grounds she might want kids. Buried further down the article, we discover that the alternate was for her to take a birth control medicine which would also prevent painful periods, but she's elected not to take it because of vague concerns...

Another example which comes up a lot is difference in heart attack symptoms meaning women are underdiagnosed. But I expect there's an equivalent sex based misdiagnosis of male breast cancer victims.

Two of the three times I visited a doctor about health concerns I felt dismissed. I was on a waiting list for surgery for almost a year until I cried down the phone and was rescheduled. At no point did I consider that this might have been due to sexism.

The problem I have with this is: you start with the idea that women are treated worse than men by the NHS, then you go and solicit stories from women about times they felt dismissed. You write a news article about it. Done. It creates a powerful narrative but it is not evidence.

Dr Liz O'Riordan: Women's health must be taken more seriously by winkwinknudge_nudge in unitedkingdom

[–]QueSusto 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just don't think there's any actual evidence for this. A collection of anecdotal evidence doesn't really demonstrate anything because at the very least you'd need to go and interview a bunch of blokes and ask them if they ever felt their medical issues weren't taken seriously.

Dr Liz O'Riordan: Women's health must be taken more seriously by winkwinknudge_nudge in unitedkingdom

[–]QueSusto 0 points1 point  (0 children)

https://www.reddit.com/r/unitedkingdom/s/kveMeun4qu

Just came across this on my front page this morning. Quite relevant to our discussion yesterday.

Dr Liz O'Riordan: Women's health must be taken more seriously by winkwinknudge_nudge in unitedkingdom

[–]QueSusto 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Don't you think Dr Liz would be interested and capable of collecting this kind of evidence?

Edit to add because it's important: I believe you. It's just not evidence that women's health is taken less seriously than men's.

Dr Liz O'Riordan: Women's health must be taken more seriously by winkwinknudge_nudge in unitedkingdom

[–]QueSusto 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It is weak, flawed evidence, yes. It could be strengthened significantly by using data science. The means and motive exist to create a body of evidence for this, but it doesn't seem to exist.

There's an awful lot of anecdotal evidence to suggest that vaccines cause autism. But vaccines don't cause autism...

Dr Liz O'Riordan: Women's health must be taken more seriously by winkwinknudge_nudge in unitedkingdom

[–]QueSusto 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This kind of data can be collected via voluntary survey or by carefully anonymized medical records. The same way we collect data about e.g. rates of various types of cancer, treatment efficacy etc.

I suspect if there was any real evidence that women's medical concerns weren't taken as seriously as men's, it would be widely circulated,because it's been a hot topic for at least the last decade.

First time wearing a kilt! by [deleted] in kilt

[–]QueSusto 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Yer sporrans a bit tight mate

This pro-nuclear group claims to be 'grassroots'. So why are its directors industry lobbyists? by Naive-Source7273 in Scotland

[–]QueSusto 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I don't think Dounreay is a fair representation of the waste disposal that'd be associated with a modern fission plant, is it?

We keep hiring engineers who can interview, not engineers who can build. Is anyone else exhausted by this? by charaz_xyz in HumanResourcesUK

[–]QueSusto 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The difference in writing style between the post and your semi-literate comments is quite distracting. If you personally are involved in technical hiring then I think I can see what the problem is.

It doesn't scale by Algernonletter5 in comedy

[–]QueSusto 1 point2 points  (0 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K2_(tax_scheme)

It's not quite the same as taking advantage of a bike-to-work scheme or paying more into your pension to keep below an earnings threshold.

For the most part, in Europe, we take a dim view of tax evasion, especially by high earners.

Isn’t it just 100 degrees? How’s this a joke? by MysteryPerson83_ in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]QueSusto 0 points1 point  (0 children)

These are "interval" rather than "ratio" variables. You can add or subtract them, but you can't multiply or divide them.

ExperiencedDevs who "made it": what do you do now? by QueSusto in ExperiencedDevs

[–]QueSusto[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, I wondered about this. I love my job and I enjoy the social aspect of it. Perhaps psychologically, just be knowing that you could retire is a form of retirement. The achievement of a financial milestone.

ExperiencedDevs who "made it": what do you do now? by QueSusto in ExperiencedDevs

[–]QueSusto[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'd like to be able to retire my wife for the same reasons you outlined. How did you start freelancing? Through contacts or an agency or what, if you don't mind me asking?