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Not the Booker: Please Read This Leaflet Carefully by Karen Havelin review – an angry story of pain
This intense study of endometriosis, its agonies and its neglect by medical science, is very powerful – and quite repetitive“Endometriosis is a bitch,” a gynaecological surgeon informs Laura, the narrator of Please Read This Leaflet Carefully. By the time he does, we already know as much. Laura has told us... -
Why don’t doctors trust women? Because they don’t know much about us
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...