Beck, 21, hufflepuff, genderfluid grey-pansexual dweeb hailing from Canada. (They/them pronouns) Geeky meme trash. I post whatever random stuff I feel like. Enjoy your stay! pic drawn by iamprikle
sending love and good vibes and support to anyone who didn’t receive it today. just because someone didn’t give it to you doesn’t mean you don’t deserve it. you are valued and important.
This is amazing! AMAZING. Chronic illness does its best to strip you of your dignity, your control, and your identity. This is a great example of how things that might seem trivial to a healthy person, can make all the difference in someones life.
bring back lip smackers lip gloss and those little roll-on 90s body glitters. i’m tired of dry matte lips and i want my highlight to make me look like a faerie princess.
As a medical professional and a medically complicated human this is very important to me
That’s not wrong.
These are both true
Both are very very true.
These are both true, but more importantly, not mutually exclusive!
Say a patient comes in with chest pain. First time they’ve ever had chest pain. They say they googled it, and clearly they have cancer now!
…no. That’s the first example.
But say a patient has chest pain, they’ve had chest pain for 10 years, every previous doctor has checked for all the obvious causes, and nothing changes.
That’s a completely different scenario. In the first example, the patient doesn’t know what they’re talking about. The condition is new, their knowledge is limited. That’s why we have doctors. But in the second example, the patient is the expert, and the doctor is the one who’s new to the situation. The patient has done all this before, and is very familiar with the pain (condition, etc.) that they have. The doctor is not the one with 10 years of experience. They need to listen, because the patient actually has something they don’t know to add to the conversation.
These two things are not mutually exclusive, they are not the same scenario, and both doctors and patients (but mostly doctors) need to learn to tell the difference and know when to talk, and when to listen.