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Maya Dusenbery interviewed on Nation Public Radio's "Fresh Air

Annikki

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Maya Dusenbery is author of the book Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick. She recently wrote an article in Cosmopolitan, entitled, "The Science Isn’t Settled on Chronic Lyme' by Rehmeyer and Dusenberry , which discussed CFS/ME and recounted Jennifer Brea's story with CFS/ME. Article-https://www.cosmopolitan.com/lifestyle/a12779054/what-is-chronic-fatigue-syndrome/
In this NPR interview, she discusses her new book, out now, which discusses how doctors are prone to attribute diseases which affect primarily women as "imagined," or psychosomatic.
https://www.npr.org/sections/health...ne-dismisses-and-misdiagnoses-womens-symptoms

Maya Dusenbery was also interviewed on a French news show:

Related to this, the show Full Frontal tackled this same sort of denial of another "contested illness" that affects women, called endometriosis:
This makes me happy, to see these issues brought to the attention of the world. Maybe eventually Simon Wessely's antics towards patients will be questioned as far as ethics and bias by the world at large and not just the ME/CFS community.
 
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