Harrowing pain. Traumatic bleeding. And no drugs to help. How women are being brutalised during routine procedures by dismissive doctors

Like around 60,000 women in the UK each year, Dawn underwent a hysteroscopy in May 2023 - a procedure to look inside the womb, which the NHS generally regards as routine and low risk.


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