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The pain gap : how sexism and racism in healthcare kill women / Anushay Hossain.

by Hossain, Anushay.

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Tiller Press, 2021.

070.4496185 H829p

Hossain, Anushay.

Hossain, Anushay -- Health.

Journalists. -- United States -- Biography.

Labor (Obstetrics) -- Personal narratives.

Women's health services -- United States.

Sex discrimination in medicine -- United States.

9781982177775 (hc.)

Alternate title:

How sexism and racism in healthcare kill women

xix, 279 p. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

"When Anushay Hossain became pregnant in the US, she was so relieved. Growing up in Bangladesh in the 1980s, where the concept of women’s healthcare hardly existed, she understood how lucky she was to access the best in the world. But she couldn’t have been more wrong. Things started to go awry from the minute she stepped in the hospital, and after thirty hours of labor (two of which she spent pushing), Hossain’s epidural slipped. Her pain was so severe that she ran a fever of 104 degrees, and as she shook and trembled uncontrollably, the doctors finally performed an emergency C-section. Giving birth in the richest country on earth, Hossain never imagined she could die in labor. But she almost did. The experience put her on a journey to explore, understand, and share how women—especially women of color—are dismissed to death by systemic sexism in American healthcare."

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