Stop Undertreating Women’s Pain, You Absolute Goons

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All of the physicians I see for my mystery illness appear to have the same specialty: Wasting my goddamn time. The most recent is, by training, a rheumatologist. I tell him that my body feels deeply bruised, as if someone creeps into my house every night and beats my arms and torso with a baseball bat while I sleep.