Women need better health care. A national framework can help deliver it

On average, women with endometriosis wait more than five years to get a diagnosis in Canada, and women with heart disease are still more likely to be misdiagnosed or dismissed compared to men.
Senator Danièle Henkel's bill to create a National Framework for Women’s Health in Canada is long overdue, write doctors Margot Burnell, Marcia Clark, and Sarah Cook.

Endometriosis isn’t “normal period pain” and menopausal symptoms aren’t “just stress,” yet these conditions are still widely misunderstood. Many doctors routinely encounter patients who describe years of being dismissed, bounced between clinics, misdiagnosed, or ...

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