Sex Matters with Dr. Alyson J. McGregor

May 28th May – 7.00pm at Chorleywood Community Library

A clarion call about the dangers of medicine for women, as well as a manual for how women can get the right care for their bodies, with practical suggestions for what women can do.

An exposé and practical guide to help women take control of their own health to get the care they need.

Sex Matters tackles one of the most urgent, yet unspoken issues facing women’s health care today: all models of medical research and practice are based on male-centric models that ignore the unique biological and emotional differences between men and women – an omission that endangers women’s lives.

Leading expert on sex and gender medicine Dr. Alyson McGregor focuses on the key areas where these differences are most potentially harmful, addressing:

❖ Cardiac and stroke diagnosis and treatment in women

❖ Prescription and dosing of pharmaceuticals

❖ Subjective evaluation of women’s symptoms ❖ Pain and pain management

❖ Hormones and female biochemistry (including prescribed hormones)

❖ How economic status, race, and gender identity are additional critical factors

The facts surrounding how male-centric medicine impacts women’s health every day are chilling: in the Accident and Emergency department in Hospital, women are more likely to receive a psychiatric diagnosis with regard to opioid use, while men are more likely to be referred for detoxification; the more vocal women become about their pain, the more likely their providers are to prescribe either inadequate or inappropriate pain relief medication; women often present with non-traditional symptoms of stroke, which causes delays in recognition by both them and their health professionals; and a government accountability study found that 80% of drugs that are withdrawn from the market are due to side effects that happen to women (a result of testing drugs mostly on men).

Not only does Dr. McGregor explore these disparities in depth, she shares clear, practical suggestions for what we can do.

A work of riveting exposé, revelatory insights into the medical establishment and actionable guidance for putting this information to use, Sex Matters is an empowering roadmap for reinventing modern medicine – and for self-care.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Alyson J. McGregor, MD, MA, FACEP, is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, and the Co-Founder and Director for the Division of Sex and Gender in Emergency Medicine (SGEM) at Brown University’s Department of Emergency Medicine. A co-founder of the national organization Sex and Gender Women’s Health Collaborative, Dr. McGregor has written or co-written over sixty peer-reviewed publications in scientific journals and was also the lead editor for the medical textbook, Sex and Gender in Acute Care Medicine (Cambridge University Press, 2016).

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