“The #MeToo of healthcare”: Why everyone’s talking about medical misogyny

Two in three women say they’ve experienced gender bias and discrimination in healthcare. In Beyond Hysterical’s debut episode, host Grace Jennings-Edquist explores where medical misogyny began, how the idea of hysteria persists today — and whether we’re finally seeing a shift from ideas to real action. Plus: Grace talks to cancer survivor Alex Dunn about how Alex’s grapefruit-sized kidney tumour almost went undiagnosed for so long, and the shocking responses many women still hear from doctors (“you’re female, get used to it.” Yelp.)

Guests:

• Gabrielle Jackson, author of Pain & Prejudice and Deputy Editor, Guardian Australia
• Dr Ramya Raman, specialist GP with a passion for women’s health; member of the National Women’s Health Advisory Council; Vice President of the Royal Australian College of GPs
• Dr Alex Dunn, who saw multiple doctors because her cancerous kidney tumour was finally diagnosed
• Dr Sue Haupt, senior research fellow at the Centre for Sex and Gender Equity in Health and Medicine at the George Institute for Global Health at UNSW