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When you can't advocate for yourself during medical appointments

My doctor keeps rushing me through appointments and I leave with more questions than answers but I freeze up and can't speak when I'm actually there.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The power imbalance in healthcare relationships triggers a regression to childhood helplessness that prevents authentic self-expression.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Preparing for medical encounters?”

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