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1) Medical gaslighting: how to get the care you deserve in a system that makes you fight for your life
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Description
xiii, 249 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"With expert advice and stories from women across the medical spectrum who fought medical gaslighting and lived to tell their stories, patient advocate (and rare disease patient), Ilana Jacqueline provides a combat guide for increasing your confidence-and success-when advocating for your health"--
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Description
x, 300 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A poignant, funny, personal exploration of authenticity in work and life by a woman doctor. In 2017, Dr. Suzanne Koven published an essay describing the challenges faced by women doctors, including her own personal struggle with "imposter syndrome"-a long-held, secret belief that she was not smart enough or good enough to be a "real" doctor. Accessed nearly 300,000 times by readers around the world, Koven's "Letter to a Young Female Physician" has...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Description
xix, 279 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Anushay Hossain became pregnant in the US, she was so relieved. Growing up in Bangladesh in the 1980s, where the concept of women’s healthcare hardly existed, she understood how lucky she was to access the best in the world. But she couldn’t have been more wrong. Things started to go awry from the minute she stepped in the hospital, and after thirty hours of labor (two of which she spent pushing), Hossain’s epidural slipped. Her pain was...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Description
298 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Health-care providers and their patients are human, and all humans have unconscious biases that affect how we listen, observe, and act. Bias impacts patients when they are at their most vulnerable. Health-care bias can mean the difference not just between suffering and relief, but between life and death. For the first time, an author with the unique perspective of being one of America’s top doctors, a woman, and Black, candidly addresses the issue...
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