Comment by a_bonobo
>Up to 25% of women have endo, in some communities at least.
I feel like that's a relatively novel insight. These days I hear about endometriosis once a month or so, mostly because of outspoken women advocates. I could swear I've never heard of endo before 2020.
As an example, the Australian National Action Plan for endometriosis is from 2018. Perhaps the currently practising generation of doctors did not have this kind of awareness during their training, and the next generation will fix it?
I think because it's seen as gyn health (though endometriosis can occur in men in rare cases), people often don't feel comfortable talking about it. Relatedly, pregnancy complications weren't really on my radar until I started working in the emergency department and discovered just how common they are.