Babies. 8% of the patients under that category are Age 0

Edit: the full billing code is "Obstetric and gynaecological devices associated with adverse incidents" Billing code Y76 "describes the circumstance causing an injury, not the nature of the injury."

So injuring a baby during delivery with forceps would result in this code.

They might be trans.

They are more likely to seek help?

Men are over represented in prisons and the homeless population. Maybe they don’t seek help.

The author actually addresses that - he hadn't even considered that pregnancy related issues would top the list.

I think this was just a fun exercise for a curious mind. I don't think it needs to have a point - it's not an essay.

Babies?

Penis implant?

Trans people exist

No. As the author tries to make clear, these are not the most common causes to go to a hospital. They are the causes, however unlikely, that show the most gender bias. That is, if the sample had one single data point of some very uncommon cause, it would show up on the list as either 100% male or 100% female.

Also, probabilities don't work like that.

No, the list is of the most gender biased causes, others are much more common.

others pointed out the flaw in your interpretation but at the same time, being pregnant while roofing or riding does seem like a bad idea

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I interpreted that as "a procedure that does not treat a medical condition". So, possibly various non-doctor-ordered weight-loss-related procedures, cosmetic surgery, etc.

At least in my neck of the woods, road cyclists skew heavily male, I'd guesstimate 90%. Probably even higher for occupations like UberEats/Doordash, which spend all day biking and are thus more at risk of ending up in the hospital.

Update: looked up some stats/surveys, apparently cycling skews 75-80% male.

In the United States, males are known to be as stupid as a box of rocks when it comes to any sort of moving vehicle.

Male cyclists are much more prone to be doing 40mph wheelies down a blind hill in the middle of the road than woman.

Don't get me started on motorcycles, PA is just next store (we are over the border in NJ). PA doesn't require helmets for motorcycle riders, and many male riders happily throw helmets to the wind. The level of stupidity there is astronomical.

I assume more men mountain bike than women.

The article is careful to point out that these are not the most common reasons men/women wind up in the hospital. They are the reasons that have a very gendered split as to who experiences them. So even if men stopped riding motorcycles, there would not necessarily be a noticeable decrease in male hospitalization rates.

What a ridiculously sexist thing to even dare say out loud. The most male-dominated category is "fall from scaffolding." Men aren't up there for fun.

They built the roof that shelters you and your family when it storms.

Also worth noting that it is only looking at percentages. If you rendered the size of the blue and red bars based on total admissions, all you'd see is a bunch of red until you zoomed in very closely.

Quoting the article:

>I’m having to choose my words carefully, because I need to stress one thing: these are not the most common reasons for men and women to be admitted to hospital. They are the most typically male and typically female.

If you go to https://leobenedictus.substack.com/p/that-hospital-admission... and sort by number of admissions, you get stuff like:

- Personal history of certain other diseases

- Personal history of medical treatment

- Personal history of allergy to drugs, medicaments and biological substances

- Personal history of other diseases and conditions

The pregnancy numbers are a policy and not related to accidents. It would be similar to say that children at age 3, 5 and 12 months are much more likely to end up in the hospital than other age groups, since those are the ages when they get vaccinations.

As with all statistics, there is some apple to oranges comparisons and some contexts that get lost.

>> So while men are taking risks, women take one for the team

I know you're joking but three of the top four are basically 'work related'. Men taking one for the team doing all the dangerous jobs.

And maybe if the men stop riding motorcycles the women will stop getting plastic surgery which is also shockingly high as a reason to end up in hospital.

IVF-adjacent treatments, most likely.

Edit: I didn't mean any offense. I just didn't know what it meant!

IVF / Fertility services

How can raw statistics be sexist?