Women patients may experience problems getting access to caring and efficient medical management, and health problems and health care may reinforce and reproduce disempowerment and lack of influence. When women patients are likely to present health problems that exceed the medical understanding and terminology, medicine may construct stereotypes of womanhood as a bothering and hopeless medical condition. However, the problems resulting from this condition annoy health care and welfare systems due to the lack of objective findings. Objective findings are considered mandatory disease criteria. The gendered interaction of the diagnostic process Clinical knowledge is constructed during the diagnostic process from a wide variety of sources.
Anomalies can demonstrate weaknesses and challenges in the present level of understanding.
Women's medically unexplained disorders can be regarded as a scientific anomaly, that is commonly occurring, and with a diversity of expressions. As a phenomenon, it challenges the existing distinction between subjective symptoms and objective findings, especially when it comes to gendered welfare consequences. These conditions are therefore suitable for the promotion of scientific innovation, on theoretical, methodological and empirical levels. The medically unexplained disorders are not as unexplained for those who suffer from them, as they are for the doctor. Women's voices can be considered as a vital source of knowledge with the potential to expand and correct the currently insufficient base of medical knowledge.