Podcast appearances and mentions of Alyson J Mcgregor

In this episode of Inside EMS, Chris and Kelly are joined by Tim Redding, founder and CEO of Emergency Education Consultants, to explore a topic that's reshaping how we think about medicine: male-centric healthcare. Tim shares insights from Dr. Alyson J. McGregor's groundbreaking book, “Sex Matters”, which explores how medical research and education have historically centered on white male patients, leaving women underserved and misdiagnosed. From cardiac care to drug research, Tim explains how biases have permeated everything from symptom recognition to treatment protocols. Did you know that women experiencing heart attacks rarely exhibit the “classic” symptoms, like chest pain? Or that 8 out of 10 drugs pulled from the market between 1997 and 2001 were due to severe side effects in women? If you're someone passionate about improving patient outcomes, this episode will make you rethink what you know – and don't know – about women's health in EMS. Memorable quotes “Medicine historically has been white males doing the doctoring, writing the textbooks and doing the studies. So, what that has led to, by no one's fault, is to this very male-centric view of medicine.” “The most accurate tool for confirming and diagnosing MI in women is an MRI and that really blew my mind.  I can't think of any time that I've heard a doc say, ‘Let's get an MRI for that cardiac female patient.'” Enjoying the show? Contact the Inside EMS team at theshow@ems1.com to share ideas, suggestions and feedback, or let us know if you'd like to join us as a guest.

Wenn wir über Frauengesundheit reden, muss leider auch der Gender Pain Gap erwähnt werden. Darum sprechen wir in der heutigen Folge darüber, dass Medizin historisch gesehen sehr auf männliche (weiße) Körper ausgerichtet war und die Spuren davon auch heute noch spürbar sind. So werden Schmerzen von Frauen bzw. Frauen generell oft weniger ernst genommen, woher auch der Name des Phänomens stammt. Diese und andere Lücken im System führen oft zu unnötigem und unnötig in die Länge gezogenem Leiden von Frauen. Wir versuchen Lösungsansätze zu finden und trotz oder gerade wegen dieser Schieflage unserem Körper noch mehr Vertrauen zu schenken. Möchte man tiefer in dieses Thema eintauchen, empfehlen wir die Bücher „Sex Matters: How male-centric medicine endangers women's health and what we can do about it“ von Dr. Alyson J. McGregor und “Unsichtbare Frauen. Wie eine von Daten beherrschte Welt die Hälfte der Bevölkerung ignoriert“ von Caroline Criado Perez.

What is sex vs. gender? How visible are these? How does bias related to sex or gender play a role in medicine? I highly recommend listening in to Dr. McGregor, as everyone can make a difference. Dr. Alyson J. McGregor is a women's health pioneer who is an expert in sex and gender differences in acute medical care. She was a Professor of Emergency Medicine at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and is currently the Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs and Development and Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine in Greenville.  Dr. McGregor is also a Co-Founder for the national organization Sex and Gender Women's Health Collaborative (https://sgwhc.org/).  Her TEDx talk, “Why Medicine Often Has Dangerous Side Effects for Women,” (https://www.ted.com/talks/alyson_mcgregor_why_medicine_often_has_dangerous_side_effects_for_women) currently has over 1.7 million views, and she has over ninety peer-reviewed publications in scientific journals on the topic of sex and gender. She's also the lead editor for the medical textbook, Sex and Gender in Acute Care Medicine (Cambridge University Press, 2016; https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/medicine/emergency-medicine/sex-and-gender-acute-care-medicine?format=PB). 

Welcome to The Academic Life. You are smart and capable, but you aren't an island, and neither are we. So we reached across our mentor network to bring you podcasts on everything from how to finish that project, to how to take care of your beautiful mind. Wish we'd bring in an expert about something? Email us at cgessler05(at)gmail.com or dr.danamalone(at)gmail.com or find us on Twitter: The Academic Life @AcademicLifeNBN. In this episode you'll hear about: gender and sex bias in medical school textbooks and in medical training and how that shows up in the ER, the work Dr. McGregor is doing to change that, and a discussion of the book Sex Matters: How Male-Centric Medicine Endangers Women's Health and What We Can Do About It. Our guest is: Alyson J. McGregor MD, MA, FACEP. Dr. McGregor is a women's health pioneer focusing on the concept of sex and gender difference in the delivery of acute medical care. She is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, and the co-founder and director for the Division of Sex and Gender in Emergency Medicine (SGEM) at Brown University's Department of Emergency Medicine, and a co-founder for the national organization Sex and Gender Women's Health Collaborative. Dr. McGregor's research focus is on the effects that sex and gender have on emergent conditions. She has been an advocate for this model nationally, speaking widely to medical students and professionals and laypeople. She has written or co-written over sixty peer-reviewed publications in scientific journals on the topic of sex and gender as well as given a widely popular TEDx Talk, and authored and edited books. Our host is: Dr. Christina Gessler, a historian of women and gender. Listeners to this episode might be interested in: Sex and Gender Women's Health Collaborative Sex and Gender Women's Health Collaborative. Sex Matters: How Male-Centric Medicine Endangers Women's Health and What We Can Do About It, by Alyson McGregor, MD Sex and Gender in Acute Care Medicine, edited by Alyson J. McGregor Dr. McGregor's TedxTalk: Her TEDx talk, “Why Medicine Often Has Dangerous Side Effects for Women,” Premed Prep: Advice From a Medical School Admissions Dean by Sunny Nakae Gender and Our Brains, by Gina Rippon The Medicine Channel on New Books Network Feeling Medicine: How the Pelvic Exam Shapes Medical Training, by Kelly Underman The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/academic-life

Welcome to The Academic Life. You are smart and capable, but you aren't an island, and neither are we. So we reached across our mentor network to bring you podcasts on everything from how to finish that project, to how to take care of your beautiful mind. Wish we'd bring in an expert about something? Email us at cgessler05(at)gmail.com or dr.danamalone(at)gmail.com or find us on Twitter: The Academic Life @AcademicLifeNBN. In this episode you'll hear about: gender and sex bias in medical school textbooks and in medical training and how that shows up in the ER, the work Dr. McGregor is doing to change that, and a discussion of the book Sex Matters: How Male-Centric Medicine Endangers Women's Health and What We Can Do About It. Our guest is: Alyson J. McGregor MD, MA, FACEP. Dr. McGregor is a women's health pioneer focusing on the concept of sex and gender difference in the delivery of acute medical care. She is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, and the co-founder and director for the Division of Sex and Gender in Emergency Medicine (SGEM) at Brown University's Department of Emergency Medicine, and a co-founder for the national organization Sex and Gender Women's Health Collaborative. Dr. McGregor's research focus is on the effects that sex and gender have on emergent conditions. She has been an advocate for this model nationally, speaking widely to medical students and professionals and laypeople. She has written or co-written over sixty peer-reviewed publications in scientific journals on the topic of sex and gender as well as given a widely popular TEDx Talk, and authored and edited books. Our host is: Dr. Christina Gessler, a historian of women and gender. Listeners to this episode might be interested in: Sex and Gender Women's Health Collaborative Sex and Gender Women's Health Collaborative. Sex Matters: How Male-Centric Medicine Endangers Women's Health and What We Can Do About It, by Alyson McGregor, MD Sex and Gender in Acute Care Medicine, edited by Alyson J. McGregor Dr. McGregor's TedxTalk: Her TEDx talk, “Why Medicine Often Has Dangerous Side Effects for Women,” Premed Prep: Advice From a Medical School Admissions Dean by Sunny Nakae Gender and Our Brains, by Gina Rippon The Medicine Channel on New Books Network Feeling Medicine: How the Pelvic Exam Shapes Medical Training, by Kelly Underman The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

In her book, Vagina: A Re-Education, Irish-born author and journalist Lynn Enright busts a range of myths surrounding the vagina and vulva in an aim to educate and empower readers and shed light on the sometimes shocking, enraging reality of living with a womb and navigating the healthcare system while doing so. In this episode of Bits of Me, I talk to Lynn about facing periods as a young woman raised in Ireland, where she was told in school not to use tampons; about having her experience of pain minimised by healthcare practitioners when she went in for a hysteroscopy in London; about awkward hymens and the myths surrounding this piece of tissue, and much more. The book Lynn mentions in this episode is Alyson J. McGregor's Sex Matters: How Male-Centric Medicine Endangers Women's Health — and What We Can Do About It. You can follow Lynn on @lynnenright on Instagram or the same on Twitter, and read more about her work on www.lynnenright.com. You can help to spread the word about Bits of Me by rating, reviewing and subscribing on your choice of podcast platform, and of course by sharing it and telling other people about it. Follow the podcast on @bitsofme_podcast on Instagram or @bitsofme_pod on Twitter. #bitsofmepod #periodpain #pelvicpain #hymens #hymen #vaginaareeducation #lynnenright #womenshealth #womensbodies #womenspain #femalepain #vulva #vagina #feminism

Sex Matters: How Male-Centric Medicine Endangers Women's Health and What We Can Do About It (Hachette, 2020) tackles one of the most urgent, yet unspoken issues facing women's health care today: all models of medical research and practice are based on male-centric models that ignore the unique biological and emotional differences between men and women -- an omission that can endanger women's lives.  The facts surrounding how male-centric medicine impacts women's health every day are chilling: in the ER, women are more likely to receive a psychiatric diagnosis with regard to opioid use, while men are more likely to be referred for detoxification; the more vocal women become about their pain, the more likely their providers are to prescribe either inadequate or inappropriate pain relief medication; women often present with nontraditional symptoms of stroke, which causes delays in recognition by both them and their health professionals; and a government accountability study found that 80% of drugs that are withdrawn from the market are due to side effects that happen to women (a result of testing drugs mostly on men).  Leading expert on sex and gender medicine Dr. Alyson McGregor focuses on the key areas where these differences are most potentially harmful, addressing:  Cardiac and stroke diagnosis and treatment in women Prescription and dosing of pharmaceuticals; Subjective evaluation of women's symptoms; Pain and pain management; Hormones and female biochemistry (including prescribed hormones); How economic status, race, and gender identity are additional critical factors.  Not only does Dr. McGregor explore these disparities in depth, she shares clear, practical suggestions for what women can do to protect themselves. A work of riveting exposé with revelatory insights and actionable guidance for navigating the medical establishment, Sex Matters is an empowering roadmap for reinventing modern medicine -- and for self-care.  Alyson J. McGregor, MD, MA, FACEP, is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, and the Co-Founder and Director for the Division of Sex and Gender in Emergency Medicine (SGEM) at Brown University's Department of Emergency Medicine. A co-founder of the national organization Sex and Gender Women's Health Collaborative, Dr. McGregor has written or co-written over seventy peer-reviewed publications in scientific journals and was also the lead editor for the medical textbook, Sex and Gender in Acute Care Medicine (Cambridge University Press, 2016).  Dr. Christina Gessler's background is in women's history, anthropology and literature. She is a historian, and photographer. In seeking the extraordinary in the ordinary, Gessler writes the histories of largely unknown women, and takes many, many photos in nature.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sex Matters: How Male-Centric Medicine Endangers Women's Health and What We Can Do About It (Hachette, 2020) tackles one of the most urgent, yet unspoken issues facing women's health care today: all models of medical research and practice are based on male-centric models that ignore the unique biological and emotional differences between men and women -- an omission that can endanger women's lives.  The facts surrounding how male-centric medicine impacts women's health every day are chilling: in the ER, women are more likely to receive a psychiatric diagnosis with regard to opioid use, while men are more likely to be referred for detoxification; the more vocal women become about their pain, the more likely their providers are to prescribe either inadequate or inappropriate pain relief medication; women often present with nontraditional symptoms of stroke, which causes delays in recognition by both them and their health professionals; and a government accountability study found that 80% of drugs that are withdrawn from the market are due to side effects that happen to women (a result of testing drugs mostly on men).  Leading expert on sex and gender medicine Dr. Alyson McGregor focuses on the key areas where these differences are most potentially harmful, addressing:  Cardiac and stroke diagnosis and treatment in women Prescription and dosing of pharmaceuticals; Subjective evaluation of women's symptoms; Pain and pain management; Hormones and female biochemistry (including prescribed hormones); How economic status, race, and gender identity are additional critical factors.  Not only does Dr. McGregor explore these disparities in depth, she shares clear, practical suggestions for what women can do to protect themselves. A work of riveting exposé with revelatory insights and actionable guidance for navigating the medical establishment, Sex Matters is an empowering roadmap for reinventing modern medicine -- and for self-care.  Alyson J. McGregor, MD, MA, FACEP, is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, and the Co-Founder and Director for the Division of Sex and Gender in Emergency Medicine (SGEM) at Brown University's Department of Emergency Medicine. A co-founder of the national organization Sex and Gender Women's Health Collaborative, Dr. McGregor has written or co-written over seventy peer-reviewed publications in scientific journals and was also the lead editor for the medical textbook, Sex and Gender in Acute Care Medicine (Cambridge University Press, 2016).  Dr. Christina Gessler’s background is in women’s history, anthropology and literature. She is a historian, and photographer. In seeking the extraordinary in the ordinary, Gessler writes the histories of largely unknown women, and takes many, many photos in nature.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sex Matters: How Male-Centric Medicine Endangers Women's Health and What We Can Do About It (Hachette, 2020) tackles one of the most urgent, yet unspoken issues facing women's health care today: all models of medical research and practice are based on male-centric models that ignore the unique biological and emotional differences between men and women -- an omission that can endanger women's lives.  The facts surrounding how male-centric medicine impacts women's health every day are chilling: in the ER, women are more likely to receive a psychiatric diagnosis with regard to opioid use, while men are more likely to be referred for detoxification; the more vocal women become about their pain, the more likely their providers are to prescribe either inadequate or inappropriate pain relief medication; women often present with nontraditional symptoms of stroke, which causes delays in recognition by both them and their health professionals; and a government accountability study found that 80% of drugs that are withdrawn from the market are due to side effects that happen to women (a result of testing drugs mostly on men).  Leading expert on sex and gender medicine Dr. Alyson McGregor focuses on the key areas where these differences are most potentially harmful, addressing:  Cardiac and stroke diagnosis and treatment in women Prescription and dosing of pharmaceuticals; Subjective evaluation of women's symptoms; Pain and pain management; Hormones and female biochemistry (including prescribed hormones); How economic status, race, and gender identity are additional critical factors.  Not only does Dr. McGregor explore these disparities in depth, she shares clear, practical suggestions for what women can do to protect themselves. A work of riveting exposé with revelatory insights and actionable guidance for navigating the medical establishment, Sex Matters is an empowering roadmap for reinventing modern medicine -- and for self-care.  Alyson J. McGregor, MD, MA, FACEP, is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, and the Co-Founder and Director for the Division of Sex and Gender in Emergency Medicine (SGEM) at Brown University's Department of Emergency Medicine. A co-founder of the national organization Sex and Gender Women's Health Collaborative, Dr. McGregor has written or co-written over seventy peer-reviewed publications in scientific journals and was also the lead editor for the medical textbook, Sex and Gender in Acute Care Medicine (Cambridge University Press, 2016).  Dr. Christina Gessler's background is in women's history, anthropology and literature. She is a historian, and photographer. In seeking the extraordinary in the ordinary, Gessler writes the histories of largely unknown women, and takes many, many photos in nature.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/medicine

Why has is taken a global pandemic for us to address the lack off attention paid to minority groups and women in health-care and medical testing?Harriet talks to Rosie Duffield MP how spoke up at PMQ about the lack of women fronting the Coronavirus briefings, why so far, are we only seeing men deliver the daily information? Rosie thinks this is unacceptable,Alyson J. McGregor Her book "Sex Matters"Harriet's second guest is Clare Seal the lady behind the popular instagram account "My Frugal Year". Originally started as a way for "a few hundred followers to shout at her if she sent too much" 54'000 followers later Clare's honesty about her financial situation seems to have struck a chord, as she opens us about the reality (that many of us face) of being in substantial amounts of debt. Martin Lewis move over there's a new badass money saver in town. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.