Broadwaybabyto @broadwaybabyto@zeroes.ca
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I’ve lost count of how many times I was dismissed with very serious issues because I was ‘too young’ and/or a woman.

My Dysautonomia was missed for years because ‘you’re too young for heart problems’

My EDS wasn’t diagnosed until my late thirties because ‘you’re young and otherwise healthy so the pain is in your head’

After my hysterectomy, I bled into my belly for two weeks while the ER repeatedly sent me home saying I was ‘too young’ to be having a serious post operative complication.

Misogyny, discrimination and bias in medicine kills. It disables. It traumatizes.

I was lucky to survive my experiences, but I don’t want any of us to survive based on luck.

We deserve the same level of care as men, and I will keep fighting until we get it.

ctvnews.ca/health/article/mont

Valerie Buchanan, Chris Scheepers and their son in Old Orchard Beach, Maine in July 2024.

Montreal woman dies at 32 after being told she was ‘too young for breast cancer’

A Montreal woman who was told by health-care professionals that she was too young for breast cancer but later diagnosed with it, has died from the disease. Valerie Buchanan was 32 when she died at the end of February.

www.ctvnews.ca · CTVNews

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