" When I started researching this book, I expected that women's stories
would be similar and rooted in the same systemic problems, but I didn't
anticipate finding that our fates are so intimately intertwined. In a medical
system with a tendency to assume that anything it can't explain is psychogenic,
as long as women have more "medically unexplained symptoms"
thanks to the knowledge gap, women will continue to find that they are
stereotyped as stressed-out somaticizers and their symptoms are not taken
as seriously as men's. "

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