What: Baffler’s Jess McAllen has a deep dive worth spending your time on describing her journey getting diagnosed and surgical treatment for endometriosis. The piece includes many good lines, but I particularly liked this one: “In medicine, as in the culture at large, women’s pain is often treated like the drone of a nearby mosquito: constant and annoying, but an inevitable part of nature.”
Why it matters: McAllen looks at the “cottage industry operating mostly on social media has sprung up” in the absence of good information, and how it affects women who end up going under the knife, especially given that “the recurrence rate of endo tissue after surgery can be as high as 67 percent, yet some surgeons promote their operations as a panacea in jaunty posts and videos.”
Source: Baffler