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When medical authority dismisses lived experience

My cardiologist is younger than my daughter and keeps talking to me like I don't understand my own body. I've lived in this heart for 67 years but apparently that means nothing.

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The medicalization of aging can invalidate decades of embodied knowledge in favor of clinical expertise.

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“Where Are You with Heart and cardiovascular health?”

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