A scorching examination of how we treat endometriosis today Have you ever been told that your pain is imaginary? That feeling better just takes yoga, CBD oil, and the blood of a unicorn on a full moon? That's the reality of the more than 190 million people suffering the excruciating condition known as endometriosis. This disease affecting one in ten cis women and uncounted numbers of others is chronically overlooked, underfunded, and misunderstood - and improperly treated across the medical system. Discrimination and medical gaslighting are rife in endo care, often leaving patients worse off than when they arrived. Journalist Tracey Lindeman knows it all too well. Decades of suffering from endometriosis propelled the creation of BLEED - part memoir, part investigative journalism, and all scathing indictment of how the medical system fails patients. Through extensive interviews and research, BLEED tracks the modern endo experience to the origins of medicine and how the system gained its power by marginalizing women. Using an intersectional lens, BLEED dives into how the system perpetuates misogyny, racism, classism, ageism, transphobia, fatphobia, and other prejudices to this day. BLEED isn't a self-help book. It's an evidence file and an eye-opening, enraging read. It will validate those who have been gaslit, mistreated, or ignored by medicine and spur readers to fight for nothing short of revolution. A blend of memoir and journalism, a scathing examination of how the uterus has been sidelined, ignored, and mistreated. For the tens of millions globally who suffer from endometriosis as well as those looking to understand the deeply rooted misogyny of the medical system. Tracey Lindeman is a longtime freelance journalist whose work has appeared in The Guardian, The Atlantic, Al Jazeera, Maclean's, The Walrus, the Globe and Mail, and many other publications. She is from Montreal and is currently based in western Quebec. Sales and Market Bullets - TIMELY, RELEVANT, AUTHORITATIVE AND ACCESSIBLE: Tracey is a fiery writer with investigative chops and a knack for relating scenes that jump off the page. While she did comprehensive research and conducted interviews with many endo sufferers for the book, she has lived with endometriosis herself for a quarter century. - DISTINGUISHING FACTOR: While there are multiple self-help books about endometriosis on the market, this one examines the systemic failures patients run into repeatedly - including the barriers to care experienced by child-free people. BLEED is an inclusive, intersectional look at how these failures create worse outcomes in healthcare. - A SCATHING INDICTMENT OF THE MEDICAL SYSTEM: Tracey shares true, outrageous stories - from getting a permission slip from her partner so she could have a hysterectomy, to landing in the ER three nights in a row after losing 40% of her red blood cells, to countless encounters with medical gaslighting and discrimination. This book isn't a how-to guide on navigating the medical system; rather, it exposes the toxic, misogynistic nature of the system itself. - FUELED BY RAGE: BLEED explores the long history of how the medical system gained its power by marginalizing women - and how a legacy of misogyny and racism continues to poison healthcare today. This is an angry book, and an eye-opening one. It will spur those sidelined by the system to take their power back. - SUBJECT MATTER AND HOOK: Chapters cover the history of general medicine, gynecology and hysteria; the pharmaceutical industry's stranglehold on endo and reproductive care; and how systemic oppression perpetuates health inequalities. - IN THE NEWS: Below the Belt, an endometriosis documentary produced by Hillary Clinton and Orrin Hatch, premiered on May 15, 2022. On March 28, 2022, the New York Times ran an article on medical gaslighting, prominently featuring endomet

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