Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

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

9 reviews

mscalls's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Chronic illness, Medical content, Cancer, Body shaming, Misogyny, Medical trauma, and Fatphobia

Moderate: Vomit

Minor: Suicidal thoughts and Transphobia

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

alexisgarcia's review

informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

this is definitely a hard book, especially for someone like me who has autoimmune conditions. but in that way, it was informative and validating. i would definitely recommend this but it’s good to take into account that this is a depressing read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Transphobia, Mental illness, Racism, Sexism, Suicide, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Medical content, Ableism, Death, Infertility, Gaslighting, Vomit, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Eating disorder, and Grief

arayo's review

informative sad

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Sexism, Misogyny, and Medical content

Moderate: Racism, Cancer, Infertility, Ableism, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Fatphobia, and Classism

revarevareva's review

challenging informative slow-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content and Medical trauma

vaniavela's review against another edition

informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

Women suffer because of the biases of professionals in the medical field. 

Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick, is an excellent and eye-opening book that gives us insight into women's health throughout history and the struggles we have gone through to be taken seriously.

This book shows us how men are the standard, excluding women because of their wombs and reproductive potential; being considered unreliable informants of their own health and bodies.

It tends to be a bit repetitive, but I find it fascinating how we continue to fight against this situation.  Women have been the subject of mistrust, and medical mistreatment throughout history. It is time to change this. 

This is a must read book.

Tw: health issues, medical gaslighting, and mistreatment by doctors and the healthcare system.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Misogyny, and Sexism

betsygrace's review

informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

This book is a wealth of information! Especially as someone living with endometriosis, I appreciated Dusenberry’s analysis and understanding of what it looks like for people who live with various chronic illnesses and how challenging it can be for them to get help. Great read, wish everyone medical student would read it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Cancer, Chronic illness, Classism, Fatphobia, Infertility, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, and Racism

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