Medical misogyny
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- Women's health
Why some doctors think endometriosis is being treated with unnecessary surgery
After decades of women’s pain being dismissed, endometriosis operations in Australia have nearly doubled. But some experts warn the system may have swung too far towards dangerous overtreatment.
- Henrietta Cook and Liam Mannix
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- Opinion
- Women's health
Women’s hospitals are meant to redress neglect. In reality, they’re punishing women
As a clinician, a husband and a father of three daughters, I’m frustrated that women are receiving second-rate care.
- Vinay Rane
The story behind the Herald’s award-winning investigations
The Herald’s work has been recognised with national journalism awards – but who are the people behind these stories?
- Liam Phelan
- Opinion
- Opinion
As an Olympian, mum and doctor, I know our health system fails women
I’ve had patients who’ve been told, and I’ve been told, that pain is “just part of being a woman”.
- Jana Pittman
- Editorial
- Pregnancy
Patchy regulation in the freebirthing sector has put lives at risk
There is a role for doulas in supporting women during pregnancy and childbirth, but clarity on the limits of that role is essential.
- The Age's View
‘Lighthouse in the storm’: Melbourne nutrition influencer dies after home birth
Stacey Warnecke, known to her 19,000 followers online as NaturalSpoonfuls, suffered a complication shortly after delivering her child in a home birth, her husband said in a post on social media.
- Angus Delaney
- Exclusive
- Endometriosis
Olivia’s extreme pain was fobbed off by 10 doctors. They all missed the golf ball-sized lump
Haemorrhaging in the bathroom, fainting from pain, being gaslit and dismissed by doctors for so long that they can’t have children: thousands of women shared their medical misogyny stories with us. This chronic condition was the single most common.
- Kate Aubusson, Emily Kaine and Aisha Dow
- Editorial
- National
Women have the need, men seem to have the power
The single most common disease shared by Australian women in response to our ongoing investigation.
- The Herald's View
- Opinion
- Women's health
A doctor said I was ‘too skinny’ to have PCOS. Five years later, I received a diagnosis
Despite having many symptoms associated with polycystic ovary syndrome, the absence of one left me in limbo for too long.
- Hannah Bambra
- Investigation
- National
Fatima was left for hours in extreme pain awaiting treatment. She almost lost her ovary
Complex medical cases are being missed in Australia’s emergency departments, resulting in agonising pain, traumatising surgeries and infertility.
- Carrie Fellner