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Disparities: The Truth About Women’s Health in America

This week, we delve into the issue of healthcare inequity. The healthcare system has always focused its attention on the treatment of men. Research has always been skewed towards male subjects, and much of the evidence we have about disease processes has been acquired by utilizing male subjects. Additionally, in the Obgyn world, there is a clear division in outcomes that is race-based. Black women, for example, are three times as likely to die during childbirth compared to their white counterparts. Why is this the case? The system and the people within it are sworn to provide care equally to…