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I Am Not a Difficult Patient. You Were Unprepared.

Older women do not become invisible. People simply become accustomed to looking past us...and calling us difficult when we demand better.

Originally published by Ivy Page on Poetic Entanglement.

Today, I went to see a pain-management doctor for the first time. He told me I wasn’t willing to tell him my story. I asked whether he had read my chart. He said he has 250 patients. “Sometimes people don’t show up.” He stated that he cannot read every chart before every appoi...

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