Your Pain is Your Fault: What Women Are Told by Their Doctors
“There's nothing wrong with you.” "Your only problem is that you're fat and lazy." "You're too pretty to be sick!" “You brought this on yourself.…
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A Pained Life: Perception and Reality for Women in Pain
The results from National Pain Report’s “Women in Pain” survey are out. To see them, click here. As an advocate for women in pain, I…
Women in Pain Report Significant Gender Bias
Over 90 percent of women with chronic pain feel the healthcare system discriminates against female patients, according to the results of a groundbreaking survey that…
Women in Pain Survey Getting Brisk Response
The National Pain Report is conducting a reader's survey on the issues faced by women in pain, and the response is encouraging. So far, over…
Pills for Breakfast: What It’s Like to Be a Woman in Pain
Being in pain every day, all day, is hard. But when you’re a woman, there’s a whole extra layer to the situation that makes everything…
Women in Pain: Tell Us How You Feel
Are you a woman with chronic pain? Do you feel you are treated differently by doctors because you are a woman? Do you feel doctors…
Are Doctors Paying Attention to Women in Pain?
Women experience far more chronic pain and report their pain early and more often than men. "Yet they are typically not believed and or treated…
Women in Pain: Tell Us Your Stories!
When we first conceived the idea of launching a news website devoted to chronic pain, we had a pretty clear goal -- to be a…