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Medical science is in fact terribly biased against women because the standard baseline is almost always a typical male body
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that’s a clinical bias, the person above was asking about a research bias.
edit:
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/biomedical-research-sex-male-female-animal-human-studies
as of 2019:
clinical bias is not necessarily from the criteria. often the clinician is the one introducing the bias all on their own.