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National Women’s Health Advisory Council to tackle medical misogyny in medicine and health care
“Women are in pain,” writes Gabrielle Jackson in Pain and Prejudice. “They’re in pain with their periods, and while having sex; they have pelvic pain, migraines, headaches, joint aches, painful bladders, irritable bowels, sore lower backs… But women’s pain is all too often dismissed, their illnesses misdiagnosed or ignored.” First published in 2019, Jackson’s book — subtitled a “call to arms for women and their bodies” — captured her frustration at how little progress had been made on the treatment of endometriosis after her own diagnosis 14 years earlier. “I was so angry when I wrote the book,” Jackson says. Gabrielle Jackson’s book drew attention to how little progress has…
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‘No one would believe me’: Labor launches women’s health council to tackle medical misogyny | Health
At one point Debra was seeing a GP every two weeks, complaining of severe arm pain that would leave her drenched in sweat and complaining of neck palpitations. Debra told him, and doctors at her local hospital, that her younger brother went into cardiac arrest aged just 35, and that her grandmother died at 50 following a heart attack. She told doctors she believed her heart was the cause of periodic and unpredictable pain that stopped her in her tracks. One year after she first complained to her GP, and following many more medical appointments where she was dismissed as being “stressed” and “anxious”, Debra had a heart attack. Countless…
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