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When couples become each other's untrained healthcare providers

My wife needs physical therapy for a chronic pain condition but our insurance barely covers it so we're doing YouTube videos in our living room together and I'm worried I'm making her worse but we can't afford the real thing.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Intimate relationships become sites of medical improvisation when professional care is inaccessible.

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Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Body in poverty — health as class condition?”

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