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How the medical establishment undermines, misdiagnoses, and gaslights women

Illustration of “A Clinical Lesson at the Salpetreire” by Pierre Andre Brouillet. Photo by Bettmann/Getty.

In the mid-1980s, when I was in my late twenties, I jumped over a tennis net to congratulate my opponent, which is what tennis players did back then. My sneaker got caught, and I went sprawling. Hip aching, right leg strangely wooden, I made an appointment with an orthopedist. The doctor asked me to walk around in my…