Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain in Our Shared Shelf

Feb 17, 2020 Dana Berglund rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: books-for-grown-ups

Abby's struggles with pain and the medical establishment were horrible. Doctors' refusal to listen to her symptoms and take her seriously were the norm more than 100 years ago, and it rips me part that she continues to have these experiences. The amount of research she has done on women's reproductive systems and the history of sexism in medical science is commendable and interesting. But (and you knew that was coming), that all doesn't actually make this a great science book or a great memoir. ...more

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Aug 31, 2019 Jessica Haider rated it really liked it

Shelves: memoir, non-fiction, feminism

Part memoir and part an exploration of women's healthcare. Abby Norman delves into her own personal experiences with pain, mysterious symptoms and her quest to find answers. Abby had to drop out of college due to intense pain that she then spent years attempting to get diagnosed. She was brushed off and told she had a UTI or that it was all in her head and eventually landed on endometriosis.

This is an important read to help understand the lack of parity in healthcare. It provides a good underst ...more

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May 28, 2019 Katie rated it really liked it

Shelves: book-club

A maddening and depressing memoir and exploration of women’s pain and how it’s treated (or not) by the medical field. I do wish there’d had been more narrative rather than musings. At times the chronology was confusing.

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