Reviews tagging 'Panic attacks/disorders'

Doing Harm: The Truth about How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick by Maya Dusenbery

3 reviews

beetree's review

challenging informative sad slow-paced

3.5

This is a really important book but I found it dry and repetitive, despite being passionate about this topic. It’s structure and formatting (very long chapters sometimes) didn’t work for me and because of the repetition, I sometimes lost the point of the chapters.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism and Gaslighting

Moderate: Classism, Chronic illness, Fatphobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Cancer, Medical content, Ableism, Colonisation, and Medical trauma

rayne_1906's review against another edition

challenging informative slow-paced

2.25

4 hours 12 minutes - This book focuses on a very relevant and important issue, but unfortunately is very boring to read. The author has certainly done her research on the topic, but it is presented in a way which is repetitive and dull most of the time. Dusenbery does cover a lot of ground on sexism in medicine, and how this might intersect with other things such as race, class, transphobia, etc., but many parts of this book could have been cut without any impact on the message the book is trying to convey. Definitely makes me want to read more into the subject though.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Dementia, Drug abuse, Drug use, Infertility, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Pregnancy, Racism, Sexism, Terminal illness, Vomit, and Transphobia

bxtskr's review

challenging hopeful informative medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, and Panic attacks/disorders