It's the 5-year anniversary of my book coming out! So I'm doing a giveaway of my last hardcover (RT & like this tweet to enter) & a thread highlighting 17 (!!) other great books that explore gender bias in medicine published in the last 5 years... https://t.co/UDtd5HLLi2 1/19

Thrilled to find this excellent 5-minute synopsis of my book from @AnnaAkana 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.

"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."

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: https://t.co/QnBJ2htVm1 #womenshealth

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Today, at The Audacity, a story about pain, and how clinical research and the medical community continue to fail women in pain: https://t.co/R4AaChNB5Z

"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."

There are bad apples in any profession but, time and time again, we've seen that medical institutions do not have the systems in place that would actually make them deserving of this implicit patient trust.

Also: Columbia is “profoundly sorry for the pain that Robert Hadden’s patients suffered and his exploitation of their trust.” But patients don't usually put their trust in a doctor *as an individual*--they undress before a random man because they trust medical *institutions.*

Also: "Columbia had no clear policy for documenting patient complaints or guidance for faculty about how to handle them." I'm sure that's not unique to Columbia & just think about what that means for misconduct/incompetence that doesn't rise to the level of criminal sexual abuse

An unbelievably infuriating piece. @Columbia University deserves to have its reputation utterly destroyed by this.

Excellent piece by @DianeOLeary 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."

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

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

@HemoGirlsRock Definitely. I highly recommend @meghanor 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.

Glad to join this conversation!

Catch @KateClancy talking about her excellent new book about menstruation with @AvivaRomm.

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 https://t.co/gXZNizMwNc via @HeartSisters