EDS has genetic testing. POTS has tilt table and NASA lean. Lyme has Elisa and Western Blot. MCAS is serum tryptase. I have a bachelor of journalism. Your MD should be revoked.

It’s always “the mind affects the body” but never “the body affects the mind”. Wonder why that is.

The number of women and non cis men who are told it’s “just anxiety” who later drop dead or have to needlessly live extremely disabled by a treatable conditions astronomical

People talk about this all the time because the system is not built to maintain your mental health. Lose your academic potential bc of physician health, however—your mind wants so badly and fights the prison of a body that is holding you captive.

Doctors are gatekeeping healthcare and choosing willful ignorance while people are dying. This is not a debate. While they’re wasting time dismissing us, lives are being lost to conditions that continue to be mocked and ignored.

I hope people realize clinicians being awful to patients and spreading diagnostic misinfo online goes further They write for media outlets crafting lack of public knowledge and support They cause severe disability and death, strategizing online how to deny care where they work

But why is this frustrating? Seriously. You have all the power in the room. You’re going to ask more questions and make your own determination either way. How is it easier on you if they just point to the upper part of their body and grunt?

Yeah.. and I have witnessed how it caused eating disorders when the person who is suppose to be your thinks they are subtle with their judgement. I have seen it kill people as well all in the name of an ed.

TW: rape A Black queer woman was raped during her surgery with Dr. Eric R. Valladares at Vixen Plastic Surgery in Miami, Florida. 4 days ago, the Miami police dropped her case even though her rape kit proves that she was raped during this surgery. She deserves justice 🤬💔💔

I was raped by a medical doctor while inpatient for ruptured ovarian cysts. The nurses had to pull him off me, and they asked if I wanted to press charges. I was 16, alone, and terrified, so I said no. Meadville Hospital, 2010, Pennsylvania. Don't seek care there.

When it began as a victim story, his Jewishness was front and center. But when it turned out he was hunting for teen brides...

assisted suicide is one of those things where i very strongly agree in theory but in practice seeing people be told “well no we won’t cover this treatment for your disease but you CAN kill yourself” is absolutely fucking heinous

Comment on a TikTok I saw about a restaurant not being wheelchair accessible with over 1,000 likes. It’s really sad how many people don’t realize that they could become disabled at any moment. They’ll regret this attitude!

any outlet using the word “evict” when it’s species annihilation and habitat destruction is complicit

May he win it all! Bring Workday to their knees!

I mean I think if the masses never ignored ME then maybe by the time lc was a thing we not only knew what to do but if ME patients weren’t discriminated and kicked out of schools then we already had a learning module in place for those with post viral illnesses

They say that the simpsons predicted hantavirus with the zombi cruise. They fast with the theories