Be Your Own Best Health Advocate
7 min readDec 9, 2019
Chronic illness has taught me to use my voice and reframe my relationship with health practitioners.
Because my parents are medical professionals, I grew up with an unquestionable respect and awe of doctors and nurses. For most of my life, I went to all my health appointments ready to accept what was told to me as gospel, asking very few (if any) questions.