I can’t think of any adequate excuse for women to receive medical care that is less good than that which is received by men. However, evidence for this continues to surface. The latest study to demonstrate this unsettling fact was published in the September 27, 2005, issue of Neurology, the official journal of the American Academy of Neurology. Melinda Smith and co-investigators looked at stroke care between 2000 and 2002 in the seven acute-care hospitals of Corpus Christi, Texas, which includes all of the hospitals of Nueces County.
Patients hospitalized for stroke, a condition in which interrupted circulation causes damage to the brain, should receive a core battery of testing. Every stroke patient should receive an echocardiogram, a soundwave-based test that shows images of the heart and its various components in motion. This is useful in showing if the heart might have generated the stroke by sending clots or other material into the circulation feeding the brain, and also to identify complications affecting the heart itself. Moreover, patients believed to have a stroke to the front part of the brain (which applies to most cases) should receive testing for...
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