Tag: chronic pain

‘Hysterical until proven otherwise’: how NICE is trying to tell women their pain is all in their heads

Sep 18, 2020 | Attention-seeking hypochondriacs

Guest post by Ellie Hopkins, founder of the Chronically Awesome community for patients with...

Appendix Has Left the Chat: ‘Why was it so easy to dismiss my pain, and write it off as hormonal or psychological?’

Mar 11, 2020 | Attention-seeking hypochondriacs

Guest post by Erin Henrici from the US We have all had that paranoia, whether from binge-watching...

Pain & Prejudice: ‘Medicine needs to acknowledge that it has let women down’

Jan 8, 2020 | Books, Hysterical Women

Q&A with Gabrielle Jackson, author of Pain and Prejudice: A call to arms for women and their...

Hysterical Women of The Week: 30 September

Sep 30, 2019 | Hysterical Women

Our weekly roundup of sexism and dismissal in women’s health How the heart attack gender gap...

Hysterical Women of the Week: 9 June

Jun 9, 2019 | Hysterical Women

Our weekly roundup of sexism and dismissal in women’s health In the week that Donald Trump...

‘Every woman harmed by mesh has been failed by the system. It is institutional betrayal’

May 10, 2019 | Handmaids and whores

Sling The Mesh founder Kath Sansom blogs on the campaign group’s recent protests A hospital...

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