I have vulvodynia – but countless gynaecologists dismissed my agony (2017)
theguardian.com
theguardian.com
Men with chronic pain will show up at a doctor and see the doctor scribble "N. A. D." (No Apparent Distress) even though they are going to the doc because they are distressed.
People with back pain, neck pain, etc. lose many years of their life to lacking, ineffectual, or harmful (surgery and opioid) treatments. That's why most men suffer through it and sometimes the first that most of the people who "know them" find out about it is after the suicide.
That is, women are not oppressed relative to men, they just expect more. (Maybe they should and men should too...)
The lady who wrote the article had a lot of resentment about the suggestion that her problems were at least partially psychological and insisted that they were completely physical.
You will hear that from every fibro, and it is real that there is something not right about their body, but also there is something not right in their head, they are clearly depressed, have given up on life, etc. Chronic pain is always both physical and mental.
For me chronic pain has been associated with trouble at work. I had a time when I was unemployed and in agony and I got a job and felt better right away. When I have been in places where the story doesn't make sense, I feel it in my back and shoulders.
So far as consumer panels, unfortunately health care practitioners would get voted up for being easy to prescribe controlled substances, not making patients confront people whose race they don't like, etc...