Women are less likely to receive painkillers in the emergency room

Women are less likely to receive painkillers in the emergency room

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Wednesday, August 7, 2024

Jerusalem – Equal opportunities for all? A new analysis shows that this is far from the case for pain management: women were less likely to receive medication for their pain in the emergency room than men. As Mika Guzikevits, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, reports in the journal PNAS, female patients also had to wait around 30 minutes longer in the emergency room and their pain was rated as lower (DOI:…

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