The Chronic Dismissal of Female Suffering
Authored by: Sophie Elijovich Art by: Jane Wang “I was told that I was experiencing psychosomatic pain stemming from guilt for sinning with boys,” [1]. Those were the words of Melanie, a woman who spent ten years in excruciating pain before finally being diagnosed with endometriosis that her new surgeon “said was one of the worst cases of endometriosis in a young person she had ever seen” [1]. Another victim, Truzane, who was eventually diagnosed with microvascular heart disease, said “I was...