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Jokes like these are especially damaging and hurtful to patients with chronic illnesses. Additionally, they "validate" provider bias and "normalize" providers' lack of compassion when caring for certain groups of people. There's a lot to unpack, so buckle up 🧵🧵. 1/x Image
1. Using "frequent flyer" as a term to describe patients is dehumanizing, provides very little clinical information and context besides the fact that you think this person comes to the ER/ hospital frequently, and has been shown to ⬆️⬆️ implicit bias of those who read the chart.
Using unproductive terms like "frequent flyer" provides no differentiating information. The person with a life-long #chronicillness, a child who frequently is hurt, an under-resourced adult, and someone with a substance use disorder all fall into the same bucket clinically.
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What Is Anemia?
Anemia develops when you don't have enough robust, healthy red blood cells to carry oxygen throughout your body. The blood cells may lack enough hemoglobin, the protein that gives blood its red color. Anemia affects about 7% of the US population and is more common
in women of child-bearing age, the elderly, women of color and Hispanic women. Image
Symptoms of Anemia
If you're often tired even though you've slept well or you lack the energy for normal activities, you may have anemia. It can be an underlying cause of memory or mood problems. Symptoms range from none to mild to life-threatening and may include:
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(1/4) September is #PainAwarenessMonth & #SickleCellAwarenessMonth. This #SundaySpotlight comes from a @washingtonpost article that details the complexities of chronic pain and shares the story of a young lady in #SCD remission. washingtonpost.com/national/healt…
@washingtonpost (2/4) Studies show that #chronicpain is interwoven with all kinds of psychological, emotional and spiritual dimensions, as well as the physical.
@washingtonpost (3/4) @NIH & others are re-examining chronic pain, hoping to develop new approaches to predicting and preventing this disease that impacts 50 M adults in the 🇺🇸. Just last wk they issued 375 awards in 41 states to accelerate scientific solutions - bit.ly/2nAhwAy
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