Doctors have been warned to “brace themselves” for the findings from an inquiry into women’s pain that is said to have unearthed stories of misogyny and sexism in healthcare. 

Victoria’s Minister for Health Mary-Anne Thomas said she had told the RACGP that the inquiry’s report, due early next year, would make for difficult reading.

“Brace yourself for what the report is going to say about women’s experience with their primary healthcare practitioners,” Ms Thomas told the college.

Their stories revealed “a misogynist view that pain is part of women’s burden”, she said in an interview with The Age.