Sexism in Medicine

I’m waiting at the doctor’s office to get checked out for a sore throat. I hear him on the phone, discussing another patient with a nurse. 

doc: “Well just tell her to get over it - I can’t prescribe anything for something like menstrual cramps”

Hearing that made me really uncomfortable, since menstrual cramps can literally be intense amounts of pain that prevent movement or ingesting anything. It is pain strong enough to double someone up. But what he said reminded me that pain related to body parts perceived as female is often dismissed casually.