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Guevara admits to his own flaws: while able to endure a poor diet and worn-out shoes, he withdrew too often from the group to read.

— Burnout by Hannah Proctor (Page 12)

[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."

— Doing Harm by Maya Dusenbery (61%)

We should all be afraid of what the story of contested illnesses like ME/CFS, chronic Lyme, and chemical intolerance says about the medical system's ability or inability to recognize and respond to emerging diseases.

— Doing Harm by Maya Dusenbery (59%)

Back in the early eighties, when the NIH set aside a small chunk of funding for research on endometriosis, not a single researcher applied for the funds. "Most doctors assumed women's excruciating pelvic pain was all in their heads," Laurence and Weinhouse explained. "Why should physicians have devoted precious research time to studying a condition that didn't even exist?" Today, there's more interest, but funds remain scarce. In 2016, endometriosis received just 10$ million in NIH funding. That means that for each patient with endometriosis, the NIG spent about $1.50. "Endo is sorely underfunded," says Heather Guidone, surgical program directed at the Center for Endometriosis Care. The lack of attention to endometriosis in the research community and in medical education has left the field, as one researcher put it in 2004, in a state of "etiological confusion and therapeutic anarchy." Despite prevalence rates that make it one of the most common conditions gynecologists are likely to encounter, medical education about the disease remains inadequate. (..). And many doctors, Ballweg adds, "don't even want to deal with endometriosis, because it's really hard to get a happy patient, and they don't know what to do."

— Doing Harm by Maya Dusenbery (45%)