the reality is, as a black woman, i have been shown that the doctors office and the ER isn’t a safe space for me. it sounds nice to just go to the doctor and receive treatment but i’ve been neglected and written off as an exaggerating black girl every single time.

the last time, i watched them take my blood, leave it on the counter and come back to tell me my blood was alllll clear.

during my pregnancy, my doctor almost let me die bc “oh you’ll be fine you don’t need extra care” even though my primary just said i needed weekly monitoring

so anyway i switched to midwives and they had me on monitoring weekly, weekly infusions, a ton of vital bins, etc. the other doctor was like “i didn’t check your records” and i was like

figuring out my autoimmune disease was lol i only found out bc of one doc advocating 4 me

when i fractured my pelvic bone, yoooo the man didn’t even wanna do an x-ray!!!! y’all. he refused to look at any muscle tearing.

from age like 11 i would have panic/anxiety attacks. i’m glad they didn’t diagnose this bc they would’ve put me on anxiety meds but the doctor

the doctor said “i don’t know why she’s freaking out” and gave me an inhaler even though he told me i don’t have asthma. i was like..:

doctors do not listen to me or my concerns. we don’t have a good relationship. i’m always just freaking out i guess.