But the main reason I started this diatribe is that a family friend went to an ER for high heart rate, had an ECG done and nothing else, and was told she had anxiety. She doesn’t. She’s also a PhD Psychologist. She would know. What she did have, is over-replacement of her thyroid hormone, which is common. Her dose just needed an adjustment. The PA that saw her perpetuated a (literally) textbook case of systemic bias in medicine that kills women.
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