Are women and men treated the same when they go to the doctor? Historically no. Elinor Cleghorn discusses how her diagnosis with lupus led to her researching why women are treated differently when they go to the doctor. Elinor says that her pain was frequently dismissed or attributed to something else, and that it took years to come to the proper diagnosis. We stream our live show every day at 12 PM ET. We need your help to keep providing free videos! Support the Majority Report's video content by going to http://www.Patreon.com/MajorityReport Watch the Majority Report live M–F at 12 p.m. EST at youtube.com/samseder or listen via daily podcast at http://Majority.FM Download our FREE app: http://majorityapp.com SUPPORT the show by becoming a member: http://jointhemajorityreport.com We Have Merch!!! http://shop.majorityreportradio.com LIKE us on Facebook: http://facebook.com/MajorityReport FOLLOW us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/MajorityFM SUBSCRIBE to us on YouTube: http://youtube.com/SamSeder Elinor Cleghorn: So in 2010 I was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease called lupus and it's a disease that affects 90 more women and people born female than men. And i was diagnosed with it after I developed a life-threatening heart condition and was rushed to the emergency room the heart condition was very mysterious, and I just had my second baby who also coincidentally had a heart condition while I was pregnant. And it turned out that both of these conditions were being caused by my own immune system which was mounting in response and actually attacking the function of first my unborn baby's heart and secondly my heart. So I was given a diagnosis by a rheumatologist who's a specialist in autoimmune diseases and really knows how to kind of piece through all the symptoms and what kind of blood work to ask for. But generally speaking, there's not a lot of knowledge of consistent knowledge in general medical practice about autoimmunity and how to diagnose it. Lupus ordinarily takes between four and six years to be conclusively diagnosed. So in this respect from when I first got really sick to when I was diagnosed, it was pretty fast but actually for about seven years before my diagnosis I'd been having what I now know is the characteristic symptoms of lupus. So these include joint pain, migraines, photosensitivity, so sensitivity to sunlight, mental health issues. I think associated with being in a lot of pain. And whenever I went to the doctor invariably I was dismissed as either being anxious or hormonal or one doctor suggested I might be pregnant and not realize it. Another tried to diagnose me with gout. And this kind of went on and on this just general sort of disbelief diminishment dismissal of my pain. So I mean really I had an ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWMe3TeDN3s

In this Majority Report clip, look, guys, we know you love Elon Musk but this is a bit much. We need your help to keep providing free videos! Support the Majority Report's video content by going to http://www.Patreon.com/MajorityReport "Elon Musk built Tesla, Inc., by turning Tesla into a great story. This story — one that’s partly about the allure of “disrupting” the auto industry, partly about building a modern-day muscle car, and partly about an eco-friendly mission to save the world — has convinced investors to propel his vision with billions of dollars in cash. To some extent, every entrepreneur is a storyteller, their venture a vehicle to an imagined future, but Musk is in a class of his own. Whether he’s talking about building electric cars, tunneling under the streets of Los Angeles, or colonizing Mars, his stories matter more than others. They reshape markets. In the end, however, entrepreneurship can’t be pure fiction. The fiction must serve as a prelude to the creation of a new company that adheres to a simple, fundamental rule: Revenues must be higher than costs, or costs must be financed. Facts matter. Recent news articles have focused on Musk’s Twitter meltdown, in which he raged at the press for pointing out problems with some of his stories. But the real issue isn’t Musk’s thin skin. The example of Tesla — its rise and its potential fall — shows the power of narrative to affect the allocation of billions of dollars."* Read more here: https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2018/5/30/17405922/elon-musk-twitter-meltdown-tesla-valuation-bubble-model-3-promises-reality Watch the Majority Report live M–F at 12 p.m. EST at youtube.com/samseder or listen via daily podcast at http://Majority.FM Download our FREE app: http://majorityapp.com SUPPORT the show by becoming a member: http://jointhemajorityreport.com LIKE us on Facebook: http://facebook.com/MajorityReport FOLLOW us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/MajorityFM SUBSCRIBE to us on YouTube: http://youtube.com/SamSeder ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlzCRjd9Aew