“There comes a time in every woman’s life when she sees herself as medicine has seen her: a mystery. An enigma. A black box that, for some reason, no one has managed to get inside.”
—Rachel E. Gross
Ten years ago, I went to see my ob-gyn, complaining of pain with sex. A pelvic examination revealed nothing. “Everything looks okay down there,” she said from her three-legged stool, adding that she would order a pelvic ultrasound. She paused a moment, then uttered words that would haunt me.
“Pelvic pain is the black box of gynecology.”
