Dismissed or misdiagnosed: The cost of medical bias against women

In this episode, host Camille sits down with Anusha Gandhi — endometriosis and chronic illness advocate, health navigator, and founder of Femade, an Ottawa-based women's health centre focused on chronic pain and reproductive care — for a deeply honest conversation about the systemic bias women face in healthcare.

They explore why women's symptoms are so often dismissed as stress or anxiety, the long history of medical bias rooted in hysteria, and the staggering reality that women weren't required to be included in clinical trials until 1993. Anusha and Camille also get personal — sharing their own experiences of having to "pitch" their pain to doctors and learning to advocate for themselves in a system that wasn't built with them in mind.

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