Tell Your Story, Demand Change #wematterACOG
These are the faces of women who have had multiple failed treatments and outright negligence at the hands of ob-gyn’s who didn’t have the right training and tools to treat us. The roots of the reasons for this are many – clinical gender bias, pharmaceutical influence, and most of all a medical professional society…
#metoo Isn’t Just About Sexual Harassment
Photo credit: Casey Berna It’s a turning point in women’s health and how medicine is being practiced right now. Everyone I talk to, from doctors to insurance companies, are shocked at the paucity of options, the medieval treatments recommended by ACOG, and want to know more about the endometriosis patient population, women’s health and what they can do to improve…
Why Having A Hysterectomy to End Endometriosis Might Not Work – And why some doctors recommend them anyway.
My Teen Vogue article delving into why hysterectomies don’t work to manage endometriosis symptoms, and why not. “Catherine Jackson was first recommended a full hysterectomy — complete surgical removal of her uterus and ovaries — when she was just 18 in Tampa by her college doctor. Her doctor back home in Indianapolis agreed. Catherine suffers from endometriosis — a…