Notes From a Noncompliant Patient
I trust science. I am humbled by the amount of study, training, and practice that go into becoming a doctor. When a doctor advises me to do ...
I trust science. I am humbled by the amount of study, training, and practice that go into becoming a doctor. When a doctor advises me to do ...
Uncertainty is baked into living with chronic conditions. Feeling well is not a given when you have RA. The prospect of physical limitation forever ...
I have Sjögren's (pronounced “show-grins”). It’s a common, systemic autoimmune disease. It frequently affects people with other autoimmune diseases, including ...
I’m not sure what I expected from doctors before I became a person who spends an unreasonable amount of time in their exam rooms. I suppose I pictured ...
My relationship with internet research was complicated by success. I scoured medical research online for years, searching for (and ultimately finding) an explanation ...
Pop culture health tropes make me cringe. Exclamation points are mandatory. There’s the personal-mastery variety: “Take charge of your health!” ...