The Book · Adam Sewell, MD
Misdiagnosed
Why Millions of Women Are Treated for the Wrong Disease — and How to Get the Right Answer
A groundbreaking look at why midlife symptoms are so often missed, and a practical guide to asking the questions that finally lead somewhere.
Not crazy. Not weak. Not alone.
Inside the book
What you’ll take away
Written for women, and for the people who care for them.
- Why symptoms get split up. How modern medicine’s specialties can miss patterns that cross body systems.
- The look-alikes. When midlife hormone changes are mistaken for anxiety, depression, or “just aging,” and the reverse.
- What the research really says. A clear look at hormone therapy and the studies that shaped a generation of care.
- Better questions. Practical questions to bring to your next appointment.
- A path forward. How to build a care team that looks at the whole you.
This is a diagnostic-reasoning book disguised as a menopause book.— Adam Sewell, MD
For readers
Keep going after the last page
Tools and research referenced in the book, all in one place.
Printable guides
A symptom tracker and visit-prep checklist to bring to your next appointment.
View guidesThe studies
Plain-language summaries of the key research, with links to the original papers.
Read the researchCare that fits the book
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How it works
Better questions. Brighter tomorrow.
Turn the book’s ideas into a plan made for you.
REAL PEOPLE. REAL SCIENCE. A BRIGHTER TOMORROW.