Stigmatizing language in medical records harms care
I have never asked medicine to promise me a cure. I have asked it to help me stay alive long enough to come home to my children.
My medical record is not subtle. Recurrent pancreatitis led to sepsis and multi-organ failure in 2016, a Whipple procedure in 2017, and a total pancreatectomy in 2021. I now have no functioning pancreas, insulin-deficient type 3c diabetes, severely altered gastrointestinal anatomy, and an inability …
Stigmatizing language in medical records harms care
