Review of "The Lady's Handbook for Her Mysterious Illness" on 'Goodreads'
2 stars
After a botched treatment for a UTI leaves [a:Sarah Ramey|16210153|Sarah Ramey|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-632230dc9882b4352d753eedf9396530.png] in intense, chronic pain, the medical system's inability to diagnose, treat, or help her leads her to a downward spiral of treatments, side effects, and debilitating illness. In this chronicle of her decade-long search for relief, Ramey paints a disastrous portrait of the modern, symptom-focused American medical system. Her story is fascinating, but I would not recommend this memoir unequivocally, at least without a tighter edit: Ramey's writing is unconventional and sometimes overly precious; the book is way too long, often whirling into repetitive tangents; and the author's largely irrelevant feminist theories, presented to inspire other women in similar predicaments, only detract from the important systemic failures Ramey aims to expose.