Brown Alpert Medical School’s McGregor on Why “Sex Matters” — LIVE at 4 PM
Thursday, May 14, 2020
Dr. Alyson McGregor, Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Brown Alpert Medical School, will appear on “Smart Health” on GoLocal LIVE on Thursday at 4 PM to discuss her latest book, “Sex Matters.”
Sex Matters 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by both them and their health professionals; and a government accountability study found that 80% of drugs that are withdrawn from the market are due to side effects that happen to women (a result of testing drugs mostly on men).
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* 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
About McGregor
McGregor 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). Her research on the roles sex and gender have in emergent conditions includes over 60 peer reviewed publications and has made her a spokesperson and advocate for women around the world.
McGregor is a Co-Founder and Past Vice Chair of the national organization Sex and Gender Women’s Health Collaborative, whose purpose is to foster a sex and gender approach to education and clinical practice.
She is an avid educator and served as Co-Chair of the national Sex and Gender Health Education Summit, designed to establish an integrative sex and gender curriculum for current and future health professionals. Dr. McGregor is also the director for a SGEM two-year fellowship program and SGEM educational electives for residents and medical students.
McGregor is the lead editor for the textbook “Sex and Gender in Acute Care Medicine”, Cambridge University Press. Her TED talk, “Why Medicine Often Has Dangerous Side Effects For Women,” currently has over 1.5 million views and she looks forward to the release of her new book “Sex Matters: How Male-Centric Medicine Endangers Women’s Health and What We Can Do About It”, Hatchet Book Group Publishing due out spring 2020.
Read more about McGregor at alysonmcgregormd.com and follow her on Twitter at @mcgregormd.
About Smart Health
Since granting its first Doctor of Medicine degrees in 1975, the Warren Alpert Medical School has become a national leader in medical education and biomedical research. By attracting first-class physicians and researchers to Rhode Island over the past four decades, the Medical School and its seven affiliated teaching hospitals have radically improved the state's health care environment, from health care policy to patient care.
"Smart Health" is a GoLocalProv.com segment featuring experts from The Warren Alpert Medical School GoLocal LIVE.
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