Why don ’t doctors trust women? Because they don’t know much about us | Gabrielle Jackson

The medical community have known for a century that women are living in constant pain. They ’ve done nothing about itIt ’s frustrating to have questions that don’t get answered. It’s altogether disturbing to find out that those questions haven’t even been asked.When I was diagnosed with endometriosis at age 23, I didn ’t know enough to ask the right questions. I assumed my gynaecologist had all the answers, and listened carefully to his thoughtful explanations. I thought I knew it all. Or at least that he knew it all. But I was wrong.Continue reading...
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