A first-person account of seven years of dismissed chronic pelvic pain, three referrals to stress management, and a stage-three ovarian cancer diagnosis. This episode of The Trials of Women explores the documented patterns of medical misogyny — why women's pain is systematically more likely to be attributed to anxiety and lifestyle than to organic disease, and what happens when the standard of care fails a patient over nearly a decade. Research-backed. Emotionally honest. No editorializing. The Trials of Women — first-person stories of systemic failure and survival. New episodes weekly on all major platforms.

One in three women veterans report military sexual trauma. This episode follows a first-person account through the reporting, the institutional response, a personality disorder notation that appeared in the medical record immediately after filing, and four years of VA benefits denial. The Board of Veterans Appeals. The partial victory. And the question about whether a system that behaves this way is failing its design — or fulfilling it.

Simone — a speech-language pathologist, master's degree, carefully planned pregnancy — told her postpartum nurse that something was wrong. Specifically, that she felt like she was going somewhere. The nurse recorded it as mild discomfort. Fifty-two minutes later, Simone's postpartum hemorrhage had progressed to emergency intervention. She survived. The fifty-two minutes between the beginning of her hemorrhage and the emergency response are the subject of pre-trial proceedings that she is navigating alongside the work of raising the daughter she almost didn't get to know. This is her full story, in her words. Part of The Trials of Women series.