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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 against another edition
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.
Graphic: Sexism and Gaslighting
Moderate: Ableism, Cancer, Chronic illness, Fatphobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Medical content, Medical trauma, Colonisation, and Classism
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.
Minor: Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Infertility, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Sexism, Terminal illness, Transphobia, Vomit, Medical content, Dementia, Medical trauma, and Pregnancy
bxtskr's review against another edition
challenging
hopeful
informative
medium-paced
4.5
Graphic: Chronic illness, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Medical content, and Medical trauma
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