Kate Womersley was a medical student at Cambridge university, nervously dissecting her first cadaver, when she noticed an odd lacuna in her anatomy course handbook: there was no mention of breasts.
Puzzlement swiftly turned to anger. Not until 2016, a year after she and a female classmate first raised concerns, were their entreaties heeded and the curriculum adjusted.
Womersley, now a doctor in psychiatry, remains shocked that a hugely significant organ for women’s health — after the lung, the second most common site of fatal cancer in females — had been disregarded until so recently at one of the world’s most prestigious medical schools. “Having breasts seemed not to be an experience that was reflected in this teaching at all,” she says.
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