#PatientsAreNotFaking

Ciara Jade Dove Lee

Early last year, I went to the ER multiple times. I could barely stand, breathe fully, think straight, eat (ended up losing 20 pounds in 1.5 months from only being

Patricia_#AutisticBurnout

#PatientsAreNotFaking1/3Taken by ambulance to ER after a seizure. Given meds in ambulance to prevent another. ER doctor tells my Husband I'm a drug addict and I don't deserve the bed

Colleen Farrell, MD

colleenmfarrell

I would encourage anyone working in healthcare to read the stories of #PatientsAreNotFaking. Our hidden curriculum in medicine often teaches us to discount patient symptoms. It’s dangerous and unethical. Listen

Me, remembering the over 200 people on medtwitter who blocked/unfollowed me after I said the doctorsaredickheads tweets sound like metoo stories...#BelieveWomen.Overwhelmingly POC. Overwhelmingly disabled, mentally ill, and dismissed.Almost all women

Serieve M Andrews

#PatientsAreNotFakingAt 13, Oct '97: Abdo pain constipation begins. Doc says I just lack fibre. Given various stool treatments until March. He continues to dismiss my insistence something is very wrong.

Elle M. (they/them)

#PatientsAreNotFaking when thinking about my experiences with medical doctors/the ER I compare the time I burned my arm so badly I needed to go in with the times I've gone

#PatientsAreNotFakingHmm ok..., where to begin with this...? Maybe as a child when my "growing pains" & Alopecia was put down to being "jealous of my brother's" by my GP or

Here's some of the shit takes in this hell world we live in.If we're sick it's our fault. If we take meds to try to manage our illness there's something

As an RN, I have A LOT to say about this video.1. Dehumanization is a lot like racism. When you call out uncaring behaviour, the provider often doesn't see their

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scretladyspider

#PatientsAreNotFaking makes me think of last summer when I wasn't believed by a psychiatrist about struggling with dissociation or my concerns about ADHD. I was later diagnosed with both ADHD