[Perspectives] The mistreatment of women in medicine

In 2002, feminist cultural historian Elinor Cleghorn began experiencing pains in her legs. 7 years on from this and other symptoms, including difficulty breathing, she was finally told that she had lupus. The long journey to this diagnosis came filled with confusion and frustration. Doctors repeatedly asserted there was nothing wrong with her, despite her obvious anguish. “I've often wondered if women's chronic diseases wouldn't be so enigmatic if medicine accepted that they can't be understood through biological evidence alone”, she writes.

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