When Doctors Don’t Listen to Women
Jul 30, 2020
2 minutes
by Randi Epstein
n the 1940s, in their quest to devise an objective pain scale, Cornell University researchers poked an increasingly hot metal rod into the hands of 13 women in the throes of childbirth. The volunteers were supposed to express how each level of heat compared with the others. But as labor
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