After decades in medicine, I wasn’t prepared for how quickly professional warmth could turn into distance. This is about loss, honesty, substance use, and what passive aggression in healthcare really feels like—from the other side of the exam table.
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Silence, Stigma, and Sobriety
A candid reflection on substance use, stigma, sobriety, and the quiet losses that come with recovery—and why silence can hurt more than judgment.