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The Girl Who Cried Pain: A Bias against Women in the Treatment of Pain | Semantic Scholar

@article{Hoffmann2001TheGW,
  title={The Girl Who Cried Pain: A Bias against Women in the Treatment of Pain},
  author={Diane E. Hoffmann and Anita J. Tarzian},
  journal={The Journal of Law, Medicine \& Ethics},
  year={2001},
  volume={28},
  pages={13 - 27},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:219952180}
}

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