PAIN — Why Women Wait Longer to Be Believed

Why do women wait up to 30 minutes longer than men to receive pain relief in emergency rooms? Why are female symptoms still dismissed as “unclear,” “emotional,” or “atypical”? And how did decades of medical research exclude women entirely?In this powerful episode of NUGGETS, Pellegrino and Francois dive into the uncomfortable truth about gender bias in pain, backed by real science and real stories. From ER studies of 20,000+ patients to the legacy of male-only medical trials, we explore how women’s pain has been ignored, misdiagnosed, or minimised — not because the science doesn’t exist, but because the system wasn’t designed with women in mind.You’ll learn:Why doctors are less likely to prescribe pain relief to womenHow bias turns pain into chronic conditionsWhy women’s symptoms are treated as “atypical” even when they’re normalThe emotional cost of not being believedWhy fixing this isn’t about blaming doctors — it’s about changing systemsA sharp, eye-opening, deeply important episode that reveals a truth too many women already know: pain isn’t treated equally. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.