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Side Effects for Women,” has been viewed
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Sex Matters is available in bookstores everywhere
“Enraging and clearly written, this book is a must-read for all women who have to deal with our biased medical system.” — Maia Szalavitz, New York Times bestselling author of Unbroken Brain
“McGregor is to be commended for showing how medicine has long skewed male and harmed women. Especially spot-on are the chapters on implicit bias, treatment of women of color, and issues affecting trans individuals.” — Kirkus Reviews
My Work
As the co-founder and director of Sex & Gender in Emergency Medicine (SGEM) in Brown University's Department of Emergency Medicine, my focus is on improving outcomes in medical practice for women of all backgrounds, ages, and gender orientations.
Ms. Diagnosed
A documentary film from Emmy-winning team Tricia Regan, Dr. Jennifer Mieres, Lori Russo, and Dr. Stacey Rosen, Ms. Diagnosed will explore why this inequality exists, why it persists, and how we can change it.
Sex Matters!
Women are different from men in every way, from their chromosomes on up. The medical practice of differentiating women from men according to their reproductive organs alone is both reductionist and, as it turns out, hugely problematic―but the male-centric model of medicine is so pervasive in our health care systems, procedures, and philosophy that many don’t even realize it exists. In this age of technology and medical advancement, most people simply assume that women’s differences are already being taken into account—yet nothing could be further from the truth.
As a nationally-recognized expert on sex and gender medicine, researching health disparities between men and women and bringing awareness to them across all areas of medicine is my life’s work. I’m the Division Director for the first program in Sex and Gender Emergency Medicine at the Alpert Medical School of Brown University, and the co-founder of the Sex and Gender Women’s Health Collaborative. I am also a sought-after Visiting Professor and Grand Rounds speaker to medical institutions across the country. I’ve written or co-written over eighty peer-reviewed publications in scientific journals on the topic of sex and gender, and I’m the lead editor for the medical textbook, Sex and Gender in Acute Care Medicine.
However, while much of my work is accomplished within the medical community itself, changing the system from within is only half the battle. The other half is educating the women whose lives and health are being impacted by that system every single day.
My new book, Sex Matters: How Male-Centric Medicine Endangers Women’s Health—and What We Can Do About It, will hit shelves across the country in May 2020.
This book is more than an exposé—it’s an informative and prescriptive guide for women to learn about their unique bodies, the challenges they face in our male-centric medical system, and the steps they can take right now to begin to reduce their personal risk factors and make grass-roots changes in their local medical communities.
I can’t wait to share it with you.
— Dr. Alyson McGregor, MD, MA, FACEP
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Recent Media & Links
Scientific American opinion feature (April 2020): “Our Response to COVID-19 Is Male-Centric”
YOU Magazine feature (May 2020): “Is being a woman bad for your health?”
TODAY.com “The Invisible Woman? The challenge at the doctor’s office every woman needs to know about” by A. Pawlowski
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