It is absolutely also about genders too.

I get a tingle in my balls? Here's an expedited ultrasound that we can do tomorrow. We can get you in for a blood test for cancer markers in two days.

My whole pelvis hurts when I have my period? Here's a motrin and an ibuprofen. Come back if it doesn't stop bleeding after a few days.

Like an effervescent abscess, the difference in treatment between males and females remains to this day. It's not even particularly hard to find female doctors that will outright dismiss symptoms in female patients because that's what they were taught.

> I get a tingle in my balls? Here's an expedited ultrasound that we can do tomorrow. We can get you in for a blood test for cancer markers in two days.

I guess I must not be man enough to get the expedited treatment. Instead, I got a spinal cord injury and early stage bowel cancer.

I wonder how as a man, I can start convincing doctors in my country to give me this treatment all the other men are getting behind my back. Maybe next time I should start with dropping my pants first and hanging dong so they know im on their team.

Ask women how many of their common maladies still get untreated or misdiagnosed.

White[1] males are extremely over represented in medical literature and research. And I'm saying it as a white male myself.

[1] This actually has ramifications beyond just gender. See e.g. https://www.statnews.com/2020/07/21/dermatology-faces-reckon...