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The Yentl Syndrome

Sometimes movies can have an impact in ways nobody who wrote or worked on the movie could possibly imagine.

In the 1983 film “Yentl”, Barbara Streisand’s character plays the role of a male in order to receive the education she wants. Dr. Bernadine Healy used the phrase “Yentl Syndrome” in an academic paper eight years after the film was released. She used it to describe how many women died because they were misdiagnosed because their symptoms were different than men.

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