Tag: chronic illness
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Book review: Pain and Prejudice – chronic illness, pain and its disproportionate impacts on women
Pain and Prejudice is a book about the structural prejudice that the health system displays towards women’s pain. It’s a memoir about having endometriosis and a powerful history of how medicine has treated women through the ages, and failed to take women’s pain seriously, with often dire outcomes. Read more
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A petition to fund a biologic drug for Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Why another biologic would help the estimated 20,000 New Zealanders living with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (including me) achieve a better quality of life. Read more