A5. Some things that worked in combatting combat racial trauma during medical encounters. Then we're on Q6. #medtraumachat
A5. First, get patient advocates. Family. Friends. Social worker even. It's harder to deny the voices of multiple witnesses. #medtraumachat
A5. Report to more than one place. If the administration of a hospital wants to be on the doctor's side and they circle wagons?
There's boards that certify, characters that donate, organizations they belong to, government agencies. Nonprofits. #medtraumachat
Q5. Always befriend the nurses. They low key run everything and high key do lots of the work. They have the secrets and know the politics. #medtraumachat
Q5. Document as much as you can. I like to use the voice memo on my phone.
Once something flipped to my favorite because I knew a detail about a room, which proved I had been taken to the wrong place. #medtraumachat
Another time, blog posts about shoddy treatment changed every experience I had at a certain doctor-run hospital in Lanham MD. ;) #medtraumachat
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It's a cool project you can learn more about at weatedisabled.wordoress.com -a snapshot of @disabled people's lives & experiences, hosted for a week at a time by various disabled people.
I'm also going to be re-postimg some of my old cancer posts from tinustuff.com.
Damn if coffee doesn’t help me more than hurt. #myspoons
I wonder if getting out of the habit of drinking coffee was a daft choice as a #spoonie with multiple fatigue conditions.
Once my body let me get out of bed today, I figured, let me get coffee while I'm up. And wow.
It didn't fix everything (I’m definitely depressed and need a therapist) but damned if I'm not actually getting things done for the first time in 3 weeks.