
A love letter from a doctor and a reckoning that gives patients language, dignity, and voice.
| Platform | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Weekly | |
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| Issues | 83 | Founded | 2 years ago | Last Issue | 9 days ago |
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I’ve always thought there is something inhumane about yanking someone out of deep sleep and making them work.
Unfortunately, that is part of being a country doctor. Every few nights, the phone would ring in the dark.
“Hi, Dr. Zha,” the ch...
There was a strange, lingering pause after I proposed what I thought was a very logical next step to Fin, a young patient in his twenties.
Until that moment, we had been having a smooth discussion about how well he had responded to an inje...
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There are people who can travel thousands of miles away from home and remain entirely intact, so intact you wonder whether they have ever lost any part of themselves to anything or anyone.
Delilah is one of those people, I think....
Welcome to Ask The Patient, especially if you found your way here through the now-third-time-viral Instagram post by Pan Cooke and me.
Each time we repost this story, it somehow travels farther than we expect, and I’m always honored by ho...
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The writers behind this newsletter.
Physician, writer, speaker. Author of Consented: A Doctor’s Call to End Medical Violence and Reclaim Patient Autonomy.
Anesthesia Doctor & Ethicist in California
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