Three books and three bold messages about the problem with male-centric medicine: 'Sex Matters: How Male-Centric Medicine Endangers Women’s Health' by @Mcgregormd 'The Exquisite Machine' by @Sian_Harding 'Doing Harm' by @MayaDusenbery myheartsisters.org/2022/09/25/car… via Carolyn Thomas ☮️

Catch Kate Clancy 🍻 🙅 talking about her excellent new book about menstruation with Aviva Romm, M.D.. avivaromm.com/normal-period-…

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Hemo Girls Rock Definitely. I highly recommend Meghan O'Rourke meghanor.bsky.social The Invisible Kingdom & mayadusenbery Doing Harm. We live in a culture that downplays women's suffering and fails to believe us when we report disabling symptoms that can't be easily measured. I experienced this even as an MD.

Happy belated pub day @AliYarrow! Such an important, eye-opening book.

growing up, I had multiple medical professionals tell me that ‘everyone has cramps, they’re normal, you’re being dramatic’ and now that I have experienced labour, I would like to say that actually I don’t think most people have cramps this bad

Excellent piece by Diane O'Leary, PhD on the harms and root causes of #MedicalGaslighting of women. "The fact is that doctors attribute predominantly women’s symptoms to their psyches because they’re explicitly trained to do so and do so often." cnn.com/2023/09/06/opi…

Today, at The Audacity, a story about pain, and how clinical research and the medical community continue to fail women in pain: audacity.substack.com/p/a-story-abou…

"The system of medicine that has been constructed, over decades and centuries, to minimize and ignore women’s pain, to treat the female body as something that largely smashes up against the medical system when it is reproducing." slate.com/technology/202…

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Every woman I know has a story about leaving her doctor’s office with more questions than answers. Not because our doctors are withholding information, but because there’s not enough research yet on how to treat common women’s health conditions. In 2023, that is unacceptable.

Exciting news: @flotus and the impressive Carolyn Mazure will lead a new White House initiative to close the gender gap in health research: thehill.com/homenews/admin… #womenshealth

"As energy-depleting illnesses that disproportionately affect women, long Covid and M.E./C.F.S. are easily belittled by a sexist society that trivializes women’s pain, and a capitalist one that values people according to their productivity." nytimes.com/2023/12/11/opi…

Thrilled to find this excellent 5-minute synopsis of my book from Anna Akana on TikTok. Sad but not surprised by the 800+ comments from women sharing their own stories of being dismissed and misdiagnosed by health care providers. tiktok.com/@annaakana/vid…