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In the margins. How medicine ignores women. | Natalia Mierzejewska | TEDxTrilo Youth
TEDx Talksยท 2025-08-14 16:08
[Applause] This is Lexi. She's dying. The year is 2008 in Massachusetts, USA.When Lex was 15, she started experiencing terrible pain and profused bleeding during her periods. For 10 years, she consulted these symptoms with three pediatricians, an oncologist, a gastrologist, two family doctors and four gynecologists. All those experts only ever prescribed her birth control pills, which to no great surprise by both did not work.The only diagnosis Jesse received at the time was heavy menstrual bleeding. It was ...