Be Your Own Best Health Advocate

Nisha Kumar Kulkarni
7 min readDec 9, 2019

Chronic illness has taught me to use my voice and reframe my relationship with health practitioners.

Photo by Owen Beard on Unsplash

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.

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Nisha Kumar Kulkarni

freelance writer & editor | writing coach | chronic illness advocate