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This chart, plucked from the study, does a good But there is also, hopefully, some humility 20
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job of showing the results, too: to be had. The consequences of delaying care
when experiencing health issues is no
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quately) with your doctor.
“I think these findings will really res-
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seriously. This is something doctors
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should be aware of.”
I spoke with three doctors, all of
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Female Male has found makes sense. They said that it’s
Interviewer Interviewer well known and problematic that men are
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less likely to seek preventive care than
Men, in short, are less likely to seek preven- women. They agreed, based on their experience,
tive care than women and more likely to put off that men, generally speaking, tended to approach
seeing a doctor when in need of medical care. visits to the doctor differently than women.
They also prefer to seek out male doctors, but “All of this seems plausible,” said Peter
they tend to underreport pain and injuries to Hoenig, a doctor who has worked as a generalist
male doctors, thereby compromising the chances in Massachusetts for more than 30 years.
CHECK FOR UNDERSTANDING of receiving optimal care. And all of this, it should But he also cautioned, as did others, against
be said, is particularly true among those men brandishing too wide a brushstroke. The com-
Paragraph 18 very clearly and succinctly who prescribe to masculine ideologies.
summarizes the results in case students plexities of individuals, they noted, seemed to
find the graph and explanation a bit “Masculine men tend to not go to the doctor, far outweigh the quirks of gender ideology.
confusing. and when they do, they tend to pick male doc- “Be careful of putting too much weight on 25
tors whom they then underreport their ailments machismo,” Hoenig said. “It is pretty light cloth-
to,” Sanchez said. ing and sheds easily.”
“For several years, I worked as an emergency
DIFFERENTIATION A dangerous game. physician in a worn-out industrial city,” he
Connections to Text There is some humor in Sanchez’s research. added. “It was not uncommon for a 300-pound-
It’s because of their own foolishness, after all, heavy, tattooed motorcycle guy to faint at the
If you have read Paul Theroux’s essay, you that some men — those who swear by archaic, sight of a needle and a little old lady with pink
could ask students to compare and con- rigid, animalistic understandings of their own pajamas to endure minor surgery without anes-
trast the simile in paragraph 26 with Ther- sex — could be compromising their health. thesia in order to get home quickly to be with
oux’s description of masculinity being “like The cycle the two successive studies suggest her poodle.”
having to wear an ill-fitting coat for one’s certainly paints such a picture. 2016
entire life.”
TRM Suggested Responses Questions
Suggested responses to the questions for 1. Rhetorical Situation / Reasoning and Organization. What is the purpose of Roberto A.
this reading can be found in the Teacher’s Ferdman’s opening anecdote about the emergency room? What central point of the article
Resource Materials. does it illustrate?
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