According to many studies, women’s pain is less likely to be taken as seriously as men’s pain. And research has shown that women in America are more likely to be misdiagnosed with heart disease, which can have fatal consequences. Yet these issues persist.

Sexism in medical systems can have dangerous, and sometimes deadly, repercussions. Recently, journalist and Teen Vogue writer Suzannah Weiss started a Twitter thread about it, and took to the Internet to document all the times doctors delivered a misdiagnosis, or failed to take a woman's complaint seriously in the first place.

Weiss started the thread by saying, “Women with chronic illnesses: how long & how many doctors did it take you to get diagnosed? I counted 11 months & 17 doctors & wrote down what each did to show what we go through just to begin to heal.” Weiss included a screenshot of a Notes app, documenting what had to be done for pain to be taken seriously.

In the thread, Weiss also addressed that it’s not just women who experience skepticism and a lack of care from medical systems. “Women, PoC, NB folks, & LGBTQ people w/chronic illnesses are criticized for self-diagnosing, but the reason we self-diagnose is that those charged with diagnosing us are biased against us & don't understand issues that disproportionately affect us,” Weiss tweeted. And many others have called out racism in the medical industry.

Many women identified with the poor treatment Weiss has received, responding with comments about their own illnesses and the journeys on which they tried to get medical professionals to take them seriously.

You can see other Twitter responses here.