How ‘Bad Medicine’ Dismisses & Misdiagnoses Women

How ‘Bad Medicine’ Dismisses & Misdiagnoses Women

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Journalist Maya Dusenbery argues that medicine has a “systemic and unconscious bias” against women that’s rooted in “what doctors, regardless of their own gender, are learning in medical schools.” Her new book is ‘Doing Harm.’ Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews ‘Battleship Yamato’ by Jan Morris, and then we’ll listen back to an excerpt of Morris’ 1989 interview with Terry Gross. Finally, we remember musician Buell Neidlinger, who died March 16.