In the book you raise the important point that women doctors are just as likely to miss important clues as their male counterparts.
Women present their symptoms so much more differently than men do.
A doctor has to ferret out a lot of information before he finds out that she considers this to be a really serious problem. The second thing is that women tend to seek care as often as men, but perhaps at an earlier stage. The changes in modern medicine this year, and in the near future, show that there is and will be less and less time for doctors to be able to talk to their patients. And there are many careful, thoughtful physicians who want to be attentive, and who try to be, but they're unable to carve out enough time to talk to everybody. The eight-minute appointment is now a reality.