Notes From a Noncompliant Patient
I trust science. I am humbled by the amount of study, training, and practice that go into becoming a doctor. When a doctor advises me to do ...
Gillian Freney is a writer and editor. Her passion for clarity in health communications is both professional and personal. She has written on behalf of public health and human services agencies for many years. She has also lived with rheumatoid arthritis since 2010. Gillian sees firsthand that everyone benefits when patients and doctors share a common understanding. She knows reaching that common understanding is harder than it looks. Gillian lives with her family in Portland, OR.
I trust science. I am humbled by the amount of study, training, and practice that go into becoming a doctor. When a doctor advises me to do ...
An acquaintance recently asked me, “Isn’t it amazing how we take our good health for granted? How we don’t even have to think about moving through ...
Uncertainty is baked into living with chronic conditions. Feeling well is not a given when you have RA. The prospect of physical limitation forever ...
I have Sjögren's (pronounced “show-grins”). It’s a common, systemic autoimmune disease. It frequently affects people with other autoimmune diseases, including ...
I’m not sure what I expected from doctors before I became a person who spends an unreasonable amount of time in their exam rooms. I suppose I pictured ...
My relationship with internet research was complicated by success. I scoured medical research online for years, searching for (and ultimately finding) an explanation ...