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Author:
Sarah Ramey
Publisher:
Doubleday Books
Date:
March 17, 2020
Sarah Ramey recounts the decade-long saga of how a seemingly minor illness in her senior year of college turned into a prolonged and elusive condition that destroyed her health, but that doctors couldn't diagnose or treat. Worse, as they failed to cure her, they hinted that her problems were all in her head.
What The Reviewers Say
In her agony, Ramey deduced that the problem went far beyond women being disbelieved; it stemmed from humanity’s rejection of the feminine as valid.
In the last 30 years, instances of autoimmune illnesses have tripled, and our medical system has not yet developed a respectful, effective way of working with such patients. Instead, skepticism and dismissiveness (the classic it’s-all-in-your-head response) is the norm, writes Ramey, and people, predominantly women, are staying sick.
...[an] illuminating debut memoir.
Making her book debut, Ramey, a writer and musician...recounts, with captivating zest, a sorry tale of suffering from a cluster of symptoms that defied diagnosis.
