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Maya Dusenbery - DOING HARM: THE TRUTH ABOUT HOW BAD MEDICINE AND LAZY SCIENCE LEAVE WOMEN DISMISSED

To hear this interview with Maya Dusenbery click on this link:  https://forthright.media/2018/06/20/maya-dusenbery-doing-harm-the-truth-about-how-bad-medicine-lazy-science-leave-women-dismissed-misdiagnosed-and-sick/

Maya Dusenbery reveals how women receive sub-par medical care because the medical community knows comparatively less about their bodies, diseases, and too often doesn’t trust women’s reports of their symptoms.

Maya Dusenbery is a journalist, editor and author of the book, DOING HARM: THE TRUTH ABOUT HOW BAD MEDICINE AND LAZY SCIENCE LEAVE WOMEN DISMISSED, MISDIAGNOSED, AND SICK. It’s published by the Harper One imprint of Harper Collins. Maya Dusenbery has been a fellow at Mother Jones magazine and an online columnist at Pacific Standard. In 2013, she became editorial director of the trailblazing site Feministing.com.  Her work has appeared in many other diverse publications from the Atlantic.com to Teen Vogue