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Tag Archives: Healthcare
Health as Resistance
What if my greatest act of resistance to terrible disease is prioritizing health?
The sick role
Last week Whitney and I launched a GoFundMe campaign, and we published our needs to the community with this blog post. We reached our goal within hours of the post, and in the following days, we doubled our goal. We are incredibly thankful for the amazing community that continues to support us, now in our …
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The anything goes mindset undermines what patients seek: agency, control, and support. When these pillars are chipped away, our health suffers.
What We Gain Through Shared Language
And he’s on the table and gone to code/ And I do not think that anyone knows/ What they’re doing here” -“Jumper,” Third Eye Blind My mom delivered me in a hospital with no staff anesthesiologist, and her care was provided by a general practitioner, not an OB. The story goes that when the doctor asked …
