This blog has been really neglected lately. Life has been in the way a lot.
Anyway, I've come across a number of articles about women's experience in the medical model I wished to share.
Sadly, the main theme in these is about women's pain and symptoms not being taken seriously by medical professionals. Any woman with endometriosis will have many stories to tell about being told it is all in their head or not they are just looking for attention. Sometimes the focus on this despite all evidence to the contrary that they begin to make you feel crazy, even when you aren't, rather like the lead character in the film, Gaslight.
One day I will get around to doing a post about some of the awful things doctors have said to me over years.
Anyway, there are some good reads here -
https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2018/08/womens-health-care-gaslighting/567149/
https://www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/2018/08/15/why-dont-we-take-womens-pain-seriously-amy-carleton
From a favourite Crohn's blogger - http://opbmed.blogspot.com/2017/06/medical-gaslighting.html
A TED talk about ME/CFS, which applies to anyone with autoimmune disorders - https://www.ted.com/talks/jen_brea_what_happens_when_you_have_a_disease_doctors_can_t_diagnose
And to lighten to load after all of this, read this fantadfan piece that was at Edinburgh Fringe last year on Crohn's - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/disability-45045223
