Health is Political
Brittani James, MDA physician's perspective on power, policy, and the realities of modern healthcare.
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The Problem Was Never Just PCOS
The “Rotterdam Criteria”
In May 2026, something unusual happened in medicine.
One of the most common disorders affecting women received a new name.
After a global consensus process involving 56 organizations and more than 14,000 part...
Is a Black Doctor Directory Racist?
How We Got Here
On May 19, 2026, a white Colorado Dermatologist named Dr. Travis Morrell filed a lawsuit in Manhattan federal court against Find A Black Doctor and its founder, Dr. Dina Strachan. Morrell was joined by Do No Harm — a cons...
Long COVID Changed Everything
Millions of people got sick, then got sicker — and then stopped getting better.
They returned to doctors with exhaustion so profound it resembled neurological disease, with cognitive dysfunction that erased words mid-sentence, with hearts...
Is Medical Gaslighting Built Into the Healthcare System?
When Patients Stop Feeling Believed
Patients increasingly use the term “medical gaslighting” to describe an experience that has become disturbingly common in modern healthcare:
knowing something is wrong while being repeatedly told th...
Do Doctors Prescribe Too Many Psychiatric Medications?
On May 4, 2026, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stood before the Make America Health Again (MAHA) Institute’s Mental Health and Overmedicalization Summit and announced what he described as “clear and decisive action” to confront America...
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Practicing Board-Certified Family Medicine physician & former inner-city Chicago doctor. I write Health Is Political—exploring how the systems around us shape the health within us.
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