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Physician voices
"Think of it this way," the school's pediatrician said to me, his voice flat in my headphones. "Back in college, would you want a lab partner who needed these accommodations? When I read a letter like this, I picture a…
“Think of it this way,” the school’s pediatrician said to me, his voice flat in my headphones. “Back in college, would you want a lab partner who needed these accommodations? When I read a letter like this, I picture a student who may not even graduate high school. I have to prepare the family for that reality.”
I took a slow breath, calming myself. This wasn’t how I had hoped the …
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Why accommodations aren’t special treatment but essential for equity
Conditions and diseases
"If your shoulder were really injured, that maneuver would make you scream in pain," he told me confidently. My husband and I recently established care with a new family doctor. I was frightened and scarred from a long history of…
“If your shoulder were really injured, that maneuver would make you scream in pain,” he told me confidently.
My husband and I recently established care with a new family doctor. I was frightened and scarred from a long history of medical gaslighting that still tightens my throat whenever I meet a new physician.
Will this doctor believe me? Will he understand?
Years of dismissal made me wary of a new start, but we …
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What a lifetime of gaslighting by other doctors feels like
Medical education
Pain. It permeates every aspect of medicine, crawls into the deepest corners of our practices, sinks its claws in and stays put. Opiates are at the center of a vicious national debate, and our patients are trapped in its clutches.…
Pain. It permeates every aspect of medicine, crawls into the deepest corners of our practices, sinks its claws in and stays put. Opiates are at the center of a vicious national debate, and our patients are trapped in its clutches. But my thoughts are less on medications, protocols, and procedures and more on how we approach the patient who cries pain. Through everything I have observed, as a caretaker and …
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Medical students need exposure to chronic pain patients
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