Why the family medical history lives with women caregivers
Across the different hospitals and services where I have trained, I have noticed something I did not expect to notice. When we ask who knows the patient’s medications, who can explain what happened during the last hospitalization, or who we should call in an emergency, the answer is very often a woman. A mother. A wife. A sister. A daughter.
A specific memory I have: a seventy-year-old man with diabetes and …
Why the family medical history lives with women caregivers
