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The woman who cried pain: do sex-based disparities still exist in the experience and treatment of pain?

Hoffmann DE, Fillingim RB, Veasley C. The woman who cried pain: do sex-based disparities still exist in the experience and treatment of pain? J Law Med Ethics. 2022;50(3):519-541. doi:10.1017/jme.2022.91.

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February 8, 2023
Hoffmann DE, Fillingim RB, Veasley C. J Law Med Ethics. 2022;50(3):519-541.
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Women’s pain has been underestimated compared to men’s pain, and treatments differ based on gender. This commentary revisits the findings from the 2001 article The Girl Who Cried Pain: A Bias Against Women in the Treatment of Pain. The authors state progress has been made in the past 20 years, but disparities still exist. Additional research is needed, particularly into chronic pain conditions that are more common in women.

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Hoffmann DE, Fillingim RB, Veasley C. The woman who cried pain: do sex-based disparities still exist in the experience and treatment of pain? J Law Med Ethics. 2022;50(3):519-541. doi:10.1017/jme.2022.91.