Do You Have Any Thoughts for Women Who Are in This Situation?

2min Snip

00:00

Play full episode

Summary

Transcript

Episode notes

i haven't wanted to tell anybody else's story on this pocass but so many things that you've said have resinved for me with, you know, women in my life. You can be in that situation where you are either struggling to be diagnosed or struggling to communicate what's happening in your body. It can really help to take some one with you, because when you're unwell, it's really emotionally taxing. We're very conditioned, i think, too listen to doctors, accept what they're saying and if we don't get the answers we want, intanalize at something that's from with us. But above all, i would say that it's your

A deeply embedded idea in our culture is the sexist notion that men are the “default” human, and women the unknowable “other". Nowhere is this more visible than in the history of medicine, with disastrous consequences for women’s’ health. On the show this week to discuss her new book is Elinor Cleghorn, author of Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World. You can check out her book at factuallypod.com/books. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.