Why is the language of women’s health so aggressive?
‘Incompetent’, ‘geriatric’, ‘atrophied’… Ageing as a woman means being described by the bluntest of descriptors, writes Amber More mature. “When was your final period of time?” The problem arrives from the other side of the curtain as I strip from the midsection down and climb on to the examination table. “It need to have been…13 months back,” I reply, as my doctor attracts back again the curtain and techniques the company close of the desk. She retains a shiny silver speculum…
