Journalist & author of "Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick" | Formerly @Feministing
Aug 23, 2019 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
A decent piece, though it's too bad it uncritically accepts the concept of hysteria—the idea that "functional" neurological symptoms are "psychogenic" & not simply unexplained neurological symptoms, a more likely theory given our understanding of the brain is in its infancy. 1/4
These researchers evaluated the evidence in favor of psychogenic theories of 2 functional neurological syndromes as rigorously "as one would demand for any other causal explanation" & concluded psychogenic theories were accepted largely by “default." journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117… 2/4
Sep 21, 2018 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
Until about a decade ago, ovarian cancer was known as the "silent killer" because it was thought that it didn't cause any symptoms until it was too advanced to cure. Not true. Women had been reporting early symptoms—they were just being ignored. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…
In 1942, ovarian cancer was described as having a “symptomless onset and symptomless progress.” It was a “creeping death which defies early discovery.”
