The film, whose executive producers include Hillary Rodham Clinton, Senator Elizabeth Warren, and actress/activist Rosario Dawson, takes aim at the persistent taboos around women’s health.
The documentary “Below the Belt: The Last Health Taboo," whose executive producers include Hillary Rodham Clinton, Senator Elizabeth Warren, and actress/activist Rosario Dawson, aims to raise awareness about endometriosis.
My boyfriend looks as helpless as I do. “You need to go to the ER,” he tells me, but as a person diagnosed withfor over a decade, I know that I will be the last person to be seen. I am not dying or bleeding from my head. I will sit upright in a cold plastic chair until patients with more visible conditions get treated. I go anyway. Maybe this time, I’ll luck out, and the doctor on-call will have experience withI never get that doctor.
“I thought I was dying or had some kind of rare disease,” says Jenneh, a nurse and one of the film’s subjects. It’s a common sentiment for those living with endo, but the fact that Jenneh went to medical school and still didn’t know of the disease’s existence underscores the lack of medical training medical professionals receive in school, which amounts to an hour of education.
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