It’s high time GPs — both male and female — pick up their game to help stamp out systemic bias and discrimination against women within healthcare systems.

The origins of medical misogyny can be traced back to the men who first studied anatomy. Aristotle, in the 4th century BC, described female genitals as turned “outside in” compared to the allegedly default male body.

Embryology, of course, has since confirmed that the female form is the default — the male form being the variation (aberration?).

In the 5th century, Hippocrates created the word ‘hysteria’, basically blaming the uterus for all female illness. Despite the insanity of this idea, it persisted well into the 19th century, if not the 21st.