Doctors Prescribe More Analgesics to Women Than to Men (IMAGE)

Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology

Doctors Prescribe More Analgesics to Women Than to Men

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Regardless of pain, social class or age, a woman is more likely to be prescribed pain-relieving drugs. A study published in Gaceta Sanitaria affirms that this phenomenon is influenced by socioeconomic inequality between genders in the Autonomous Community in which the patient resides.

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