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"Sasha Ottey calls this phenomenon 'health-care gaslighting.' Ottey founded the Atlanta-based nonprofit PCOS Challenge: The National Polycystic Ovary Syndrome Association in 2009 to raise awareness of PCOS, a hormonal disorder affecting the ovaries that’s often linked to infertility, diabetes, and pelvic pain. Despite the fact that PCOS was first identified and researched in 1935 and the CDC has estimated it affects some 6 to 12 percent of adult women in the United States, many doctors still don’t recognize the symptoms. Women with PCOS and similar conditions like endometriosis and uterine fibroids, Ottey says, 'have been told to suffer in silence.' Additionally, because PCOS often causes obesity or weight problems, many women with PCOS experience not just sexism but what Ottey calls 'weight bias' in the health-care system."

~ A. Fetters

https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2018/08/womens-health-care-gaslighting/567149/

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