In the United States alone, 1 in 3 women dies each year from cardiovascular problems. But recent research concludes that a woman who suffer...
The groundbreaking study suggests that women who have myocardial infarctions or heart attacks have a greater than 30 percent chance of surviving than men, from the time they start experiencing symptoms to the time they reach a hospital. And if they are attended by a man, the health worsens.
Why Does This Happen?
Although gender does not make a doctor more or less professional, the authors of the researchers suspect that it has to do with better fluidity in communication and greater understanding between women.
According to Brad Greenwood, study co-author and associate professor of information and decision sciences at the University of Minnesota Carlson School of Management, "gender concordance often facilitates communication between patient and physician, That means men may not get the signals they need from patients to diagnose a heart attack.”
In other words, a woman can better understand another woman, so she can more explicitly interpret the signals she's giving in the face of a heart attack. In addition, experts believe that women could feel more comfortable with a doctor, so communication could flow better.
On the other hand, the researchers found that because heart attack symptoms present differently in women than in men, male doctors may take a little longer to recognize them and treat the situation in the same way. urgency. In addition, the research results also show that female mortality rates decrease when male physicians practice with more female colleagues or have treated more female patients in the past.
Heart Attack Symptoms in Women
According to the Spanish Heart Foundation, a heart attack occurs when the coronary arteries narrow and oxygen does not reach the heart, so the heart muscle does not have the energy to continue beating.
fatigue
flu-like symptoms
difficulty breathing
cold sweat
nausea
jaw or neck pain
The strength of the female heart
The findings show a clear tendency for women to understand and empathize with other women. This, which in the medical field can save many lives, in everyday life also "saves" us.
We save each other when we support each other when we listen to each other and understand each other. The feminine world naturally and ancestrally tends to make a tribe. Sharing experiences bring us together and distance us from false sentences about women, those that say that we are cold and competitive among ourselves.
Women share the same strength, the one that makes us fight day by day against the injustices of life, the one that mom and grandmother taught us since we were little, the one that our school friend shows us when they defend us, and the one that every day We carry as a flag.
We cannot deny that women understand each other and that with a female doctor we probably feel more comfortable and confident when it comes to expressing our symptoms, but neither can we deny that male doctors also save our lives, they also strive to take care of us and heal us and they also deserve our admiration and recognition.
Therefore, as women, we have two missions: to continue strengthening strong ties with our peers and to strengthen the communication link with men. It is about smoothing rough edges, opening our intuitive channel, and turning towards the magic of interpersonal relationships.
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