I spent years telling patients to disclose every medication, supplement, symptom, and substance to their healthcare provider. Then I became the patient who didn't follow his own advice.
Tag: patient experience
What Disabled Looks Like
I spent years understanding disability as a healthcare provider. Then multiple strokes put me on the other side of the exam room and taught me how different understanding disability is from living with it.
Scars of Service: Harm Reduction, Redemption, and the People Who Refuse Both
A former provider reflects on becoming the patient—where judgment replaced care, and how harm reduction could have changed everything.