tbh I’m actually pretty tired of articles about how doctors are SHOCKED to learn that they are treated poorly when they become patients.
thank you for announcing that you were completely unaware of the biases and abuses you were directly participating in for many years. I feel much better now.
or, more likely, thank you for announcing that you always thought people deserved to be treated that way until it happened to you personally.
(this is about a very specific type of writing and not a comment on disabled doctors as a group, which I hope is contextually obvious.)
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like the fact that I need to completely ignore all the encouragement to exercise more from my (otherwise helpful) fitness tracker is the same problem as how just about every commercial electrolyte blend is developed & branded for either exercise or the stomach flu.
I'm trying liquid IV for the first time because heat wave and I resent the heck out of needing expensive individually wrapped consumer products to survive.
(tho if you buy directly from them I think there's a discount code: POTS30)
lots of medical products need to be individually wrapped for safety. this is not one of those situations.
pitch: tv show called Fakers about a bunch of undiagnosed chronically ill people performing wellness in order to survive as they try to figure out wtf is going on with their bodies in the face of systemic disbelief.
maybe a dramady set in a Health Anxiety support group in which a couple folks genuinely have HA & everyone else is blatantly ill (and some both).
open with montage of doc appt in which each person is referred to the group & fobbed off according to strongest med biases they face.
patient: I feel faint if I stand too long & I'm worried I'm going to get hurt at work, are there any tests you'd recommend?
doctor: it sounds like you're really catastrophizing! before we talk tests I'm gonna refer you to a Health Anxiety group so you can manage those thoughts.
like I absolutely hate it here in this part of the multiverse sometimes, but dedicated long covid clinics that only offer GET & CBT are *worse* than no clinics at all.
long haulers need money so they can rest & pursue competent personalized care, they don't need to get sucked into a decades-long violent campaign to somaticize post-viral illness.