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Our healthcare system is broken. But it doesn't have to break you. . This practical, realistic guide is designed to help women fight medical bias and neglect in order to get the care they need - and deserve.. For women, the possibility of experiencing medical gaslighting - having a health care provider dismiss or ignore their concerns without considering appropriate testing or creating a treatment plan - has always been a very real and present danger, with consequences ranging from self-doubt and emotional stress to delayed diagnosis and death. And being a woman of color, transgender, or disabled only compounds the risk.. Today, more women are aware of medical gaslighting than ever - but awareness isn't enough. In Medical Gaslighting, you'll equip yourself with the tools you need to be fully heard at every step of the process, including:.
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Ilana Jacqueline is author of the award-winning blog, Let's Feel Better. She started the blog at age 22 to share her humbling, hilarious, and heartfelt experiences coping with chronic illness. From full contact fights with skull-cramping migraines to making peace with being a human pincushion, she writes boldly and unabashedly about breaking down, getting back up, and pulling off the bandage that is "coming out" about the shame and frustration of living with chronic illness.Jacqueline is a health journalist and professional patient advocate whose work has included writing for publications like Cosmopolitan and The Huffington Post on the patient experience as well as working for healthcare companies and patient advocacy groups as a consultant and advisor. She has a personal connection with the patient community, as she has been a patient with complex chronic illnesses throughout her life including immune deficiency, dysautonomia, gastroparesis and an adhesion disorder.As a health advocate and regularly interviewed expert on chronic illness, Jacqueline looks to help patients advocate for themselves at their most vulnerable moments. She is currently working on multiple projects to help connect chronically ill patients with remote employment opportunities, financial and emotional support as well as creating new programs for patient empowerment and awareness efforts. Jacqueline lives with her biochemist husband and literally the cutest apricot poodle you've ever seen in Boca Raton, FL.
