Lucille Higgs

So, as a patient of epilepsy, RA, endometriosis and chronic anemia, one of the things I became very tired of was not understanding the language my doctors spoke around me... about me. I didn’t like not being able to read my own slides, and test results. I didn’t like not understanding the nuance of my own conditions. Patients are easy to lie to if they are too easily inundated with, not just their own problems (which, in my case, is so many of them) but also the endless tests, screens, and MEDS (with their corresponding side effects and possible contraindications) and jargon. Along with th