• Rachelhazideas@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    They really aren’t.

    Try speaking to anyone with a chronic and incurable illness. Try speaking to countless women and PoC who were denied treatment at the ER. Try speaking to people who had their medications denied by pharmacist because they didn’t ‘look like they’re in pain’.

    Modern medicine is rife with systemic misogyny and racism. The privilege of being heard by your doctor isn’t a universal experience. The rest of us are forced to choose between suffering and dying or educating ourselves and self-advocating.