Typical BS for kids with chronic conditions: doctors are sympathetic at first, they grow impatient when they don’t spontaneously get well or respond to treatment, so they blame the parents and malingering.

“Being fat doesn't mean you deserve to die.
Fatness is not a declaration that your life, your safety, and your rights are subsequently voided.

The crux of this image is that if you REALLY cared about your body and staying alive, you'd be thin. But seeing as you're fat, others have permission to forgo the life saving / virus preventing measure of wearing a mask during a pandemic near you. Let me be clear, there is no weight or size in which we (fat people) should be stripped of our rights and safety. Suggesting otherwise is a violent act of fatphobia.

Really consider how dehumanizing this image is and what messages it reinforces about fat rights. Consider how normalizing this messaging impacts the ways we treat fat people, the ways we treat them in workplaces, in doctors offices and on the street. I want you to hear my breath catch in my throat as I am forced into telling you

I DO NOT CARE HOW FAT SOMEONE IS, THEY ARE STILL A HUMAN BEING
THEY STILL DESERVE COMPASSION AND DECENCY
AND THE FACT SOMEONE FELT THIS WAS A HOT TAKE ON "HEALTH" MAKES ME SICK”

“The benefits of social transition must be enjoyed by all members of our community, including those who do not use (or just use) she/he/they pronouns. Non-binary communities also need to embrace body positivity and fat liberatory politics in order to free our population from the idea that to be androgynous you must be skinny In fact the idea that you have to be androgynous in order to be non-binary needs to be deconstructed as it is based on the medicalisation of our gender identities – that to be a specific gender you must have a particular body shape, and to be trans, you must change your body shape to match the ideal body shape for your gender.”

“The current shows of solidarity from medical societies, universities, and their leaders signal their virtues and help spread the message — for any remaining doubters in our halls — that, yes, Black lives matter. Yet, part of me feels like these signals ring hollow. How are we supposed to believe our institutions’ claims to be opposed to racism when we have had to force their hand at every turn?

All of this takes place against the backdrop of a medical education system that is ridden with structures that promulgate bias, especially against Black students. Research has found evidence of gender and racial bias both in the grading of students’ performance in clinical rotations and in the word choices used in written performance evaluations...”

This is criminal and worth a read.

From 2007. Medical PTSD is not studied or understood.

The death of Carrie Ann Lucas is inspiring people to start the Medical Abuse Hotline.

This has been needed for a long time and is long overdue.

Carrie Ann Lucas's blog post documenting how what became her end-of-life care cost her ability to speak, and endless trauma and medical errors.

Carrie Ann Lucas died because United Healthcare didn't want to pay $2k for a life-saving antibiotic. Instead, what turned into her end of life care cost over $1million.

Because they denied an antibiotic that should never have cost so much in the first place.