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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Melissa Davey Medical editor

‘No one would believe me’: Labor launches women’s health council to tackle medical misogyny

Ged Kearney
Assistant minister for health Ged Kearney said social prejudice and medical ignorance presents a ‘health catastrophe’ for women. Photograph: Mick Tsikas/AAP

At one point Debra was seeing a GP every two weeks, complaining of severe arm pain that would leave her drenched in sweat and complaining of neck palpitations.

Debra told him, and doctors at her local hospital, that her younger brother went into cardiac arrest aged just 35, and that her grandmother died at 50 following a heart attack. She told doctors she believed her heart was the cause of periodic and unpredictable pain that stopped her in her tracks.

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