Beautifully stated, @allsadnshit 💙🥄

This organization is picking up the slack for HHS! Spread the word please so we have MORE sign up for affordable healthcare. 

GET AMERICA COVERED!

Get America Covered helps people get covered and stay covered. We’re here to help people looking to enroll in health coverage and those who are helping other people sign-up.

Open Enrollment will be half as long this year and there will be less public education about enrollment information and key deadlines than during previous open enrollments. This will make it that much harder for people to find the facts and information they need in order to sign up for health coverage.

We’re stepping in to help get the word out - and we hope you’ll join us. We ran outreach and public education for HealthCare.gov over the last three years. Now, we’re taking everything we learned about how to reach people with the information they need and getting to work, helping more people enroll.

Sign up begins NOVEMBER 1st!!! Get covered!

This welcome mat converts into a fully accessible wheelchair ramp. Beautiful and functional design. I want it.

Some more info, for people who are interested.

First of all, I can’t believe this has almost 3,000 notes. I’m so glad that people are sharing this - both as a cool design, and also as an important accessibility feature.

Thanks to pseudosoph for linking to additional info (above) regarding weight limits, lift height, and product background – the creator is a wheelchair user himself! Very cool stuff. Keep sharing!

please end the suffering

I’m a -1 on the Normie Sick Scale

I LOVE THIS CHART. I'm going to print it out and show it to my doctors when I go.

Let yourself feel.

Thanks for the inspiration @kindersuggestion :)

So you know how a lot of medical response to chronic pain and fatigue is ‘oh just exercise more and you’ll be less tired!’

well my mom found an article where it turns out basically all of the data supposedly supporting that is complete bullshit whAT DO YOU KNOW. 

TURNS OUT YOU CAN’T EXERCISE OUT OF BEING IN AWFUL PAIN FROM YOUR *NERVES WORKING WRONG*. 

If you are a white person who works in a medical field and

1. find yourselves angered, annoyed because a patient does not speak fluent english 2. Assume/think POC patients are lying or exaggerating their symptoms 3. Prioritizing white patients over POC patients

Then you don’t need to be in the medical field, please quit your job now.

Ive seen this happen. Shes right. Yall are in the wrong profession if you’re acting like that.

My regular doctor(Indian) was on pregnancy leave so I had to get a Pap smear from a different White Woman. You have to get them when you turn 21.

Both her and her annoying nurse were obviously in disbelief when I told them I am a virgin. They asked me several times. Then this horrid bitch gave me the Pap smear which was FUCKING painful to say the least because she was not being gentle and after she joked like “oh guess you are a virgin lol heehaw my bad” like I wanted to kick her in the throat I was so mad. Hell, I still do.

Every single time I go to my university’s health clinic the nurses ask me like 10x if I’m *sure* I’m a virgin. Like why would I lie?

Right!!

Like why the hell would I lie to you, my DOCTOR? Of all the people who come and go into my life. If I’m here obviously there is a problem with me and I’m going to cooperate to solve it quickly. Also, I’m going into the health field, I intern at a large hospital in Minneapolis, and im in pre med. I have NO reason to lie to you 🙄🙄

They also do this with the drugs and alcohol question. Like no bitch. It’s so annoying

I’m a patient actress that is used in training sessions where we role play situations where I’m a patient or patient family member with doctors/nursing students for this very reason. I’ve done scenario where my characters have had depression, were cutting, had a family member die (or is dying), emergency room arrivals (calming panic and giving bad information), domestic violence, and pregnancies where mistakes were made my medical staff etc. 

And what I’ve found is no matter what the training scenario I’m in, before I even open my mouth the doctors are terrified. They assume I’m going to angry before I say anything. Most of the time my characters are terrified so get directions to demonstrate varying degrees of anxiety,fear, and sadness. 

Basically I have to cry a lot.

And even then in feed back, (where the doctors are talking to a facilitator and maybe five other doctors in training in the room) some will comment that they felt I had an attitude, or that I was being irresponsible about my birth control  (in intimate partner violence scenarios) 

If you feel like your doctor or medical staff is treating you unfairly because of your race/ethnicity/sexual orientation etc you are well within your rights to ask for someone else. They are trained to behavior better than this. And yet..

When my white female doctor was afraid to put me on methotrexate (a medicine she knew could lower my pain) because I might get pregnant accidentally, I had to repeat over and over that I was a virgin with zero plans to have sex in the future for several appointments before she would listen.

i’ve been feeling rly sluggish and a little down, so just to motivate myself and remind myself