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How we are influenced by police procedurals
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The Nib: Medicine's Women Problem
"I had been sick for YEARS. Permanent damage had been done to my bones, my eyes, my heart."Women of all ages experience medical bias. The younger you are, the more trouble you may have asserting yourself. We are taught that doctors are authority figures and we should trust their judgment. But sometimes their judgment is skewed by their unconscious ( Read more... ) -
This is Heart-breaking (and Deadly)
Fat Patients’ Bias Epidemic: https://medium.com/@thefatshadow/the-bias-epidemic-8f27e79bd21c
Excerpt:
"Have you ever been misdiagnosed by a doctor due to your size? What were the repercussions of your misdiagnosis?” I asked on Twitter. I had become ( Read more... ) -
Radiology and patient comfort
I was sent to radiology for x-rays of my feet, primarily my big toe joints. Over the last decade I've grown increasingly anxious because my back has grown more painful on a good day and often the positions I'm asked to move into hurt. Both my lumbar and cervical spine have problems and I cannot lie flat without severe pain. Yet that is what was ( Read more... ) -
COUNTDOWN TO 60: (Dec 3) 1968- (Dec 2) 1978 Part II
After a dramatic scene with my mom and grandma when Mom found my suitcases in her trunk during a trip to Keokuk, where I planned to catch a bus to the St. Louis temple, I was finally on my way. Grandma said she wouldn't give me my birthday government savings bonds she'd purchased for me every year if I left and I told her she could keep her money; ( Read more... ) -
COUNTDOWN TO 60: (Dec 3) 1968- (Dec 2) 1978 Part I
Content Warning: abuse, neglect, poverty, insects, rodents, suicide, depression, dieting, body shaming and bullying ( Read more... ) -
COUNTDOWN TO 60: 1958 to 1968
The earliest years of my childhood were some of the best from my point of view. Things were happening that I was too young to know or understand so I lived in blissful ignorance, playing and exploring and feeling cherished by my extended family as the only child, only grandchild and only great-grandchild. Although I was spanked and hated it, I took ( Read more... ) -
COUNTDOWN TO 60: Intro
Turning 60 on December 2nd is important to me because I was told by my cardiac surgeon that I wouldn't make it to age 50 unless I reached a "normal weight." (Likewise making it to 50 was important.) I can't over emphasize the impact of having a cardiac surgeon say such a thing in the first conversation you have with him following open heart surgery ( Read more... ) -
Previous doc had dismissed my mention of stomach pain
The same doc who spent a long time trying to talk me into gastric bypass surgery also brushed off my mention of abdominal pain as a likely symptom of my depression. (Note that I have had depression off and on for decades so I'm likely to know what the symptoms I typically suffer are ( Read more... ) -
Fat Patient's Obituary Calls Out Medical Bias
From her obituary ( Read more... )