Medical Mistreatment and Victimization: It’s Time to Make a Change! In December of 1983,my mother was diagnosed with cervical cancer. The suspicion of cancer initiated with a routine Pap smear by our family doctor and she was directed to a gynecologist. Under local anesthesia, he performed a biopsy, which in fact detected cancerous cells in her cervix. It was unclear whether or not it had spread beyond the cervix, so my mother was recommended …showed first 75 words of 2956 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2956 total…other women out there suffering from the same forms of medical mistreatment. Social support is a direct therapeutic approach that leads to reaching social empowerment. As I mentioned before, issues of women’s health cannot be understood only on biological terms. Social conditions directly affect our health. We must constantly question the social forces that continue to create vast inequalities in h! ealth care in order to prevent the same mistakes from repeating. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**