Thinking on healthcare navigation, chronic illness, resilience, and the systems we all move through.
There’s an invisible assumption built into healthcare that almost no one talks about: That the patient will remember. Not just how they feel.Not just what hurts. But: In theory, the medical record is supposed to carry that story. In reality, far too often, the patient does. And that is where things start to break. A…
I was 28 years old when I first got sick. I had never really been sick before. Doctor visits were occasional—annual physicals if I remembered, the kind of appointments most people in their 20s don’t think much about. The only time I had ever been in the hospital was to give birth. And then, suddenly,…
I had a heart attack in 2023. At 42 years old. Young, by healthcare standards. I wasn’t diabetic. I didn’t have high blood pressure. I didn’t have high cholesterol. I didn’t have a family history of heart disease. There was nothing about my profile that suggested this should happen. And then it did. The Speed…
There is no class for learning how to be a patient. No one sits you down and explains what the role of the patient is in healthcare. No one walks you through how to prepare, what to say, or how to move through a system that suddenly becomes a central part of your life. There’s…
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