Maya Dusenbery lays out—chapter by chapter, anecdote by anecdote, illness by illness, statistic by statistic—how a male-oriented medical establishment routinely dismisses female lived experience when it does not fit into expected medical scenarios. If perhaps you are skeptical about Dusenbery’s claims, reading this book gives you a chance to hear firsthand from many women who nearly died from their ailments and from doctors not believing them. A wake up call for medicine, and for mental health practitioners as well.