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Maya Dusenbery: Doing Harm (2018, HarperCollins Publishers) No rating

"In this shocking, hard-hitting expose in the tradition of Naomi Klein and Barbara Ehrenreich, the …

[L]et's acknowledge that we are asking individual women to compensate for the medical system's failures. While some patients may want to be partners in their medical care, and the Internet has certainly made it easier for some patients to educate themselves, not all women have the vast resources required to become "empowered patients."

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More knowledge is a false illusion of empowerment anyways, and is in no way able to bring balance to a harmful patient-doctor power dynamic.