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How medical devices become sources of social shame

I have been using a feeding tube for six months and people stare at me when I eat in public like I am doing something disgusting or wrong.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The visibility of life-sustaining technology transforms private medical needs into public spectacle, adding social suffering to physical necessity.

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