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- Their research suggests "a rising tide lifts all boats, but fails to close gaps," as distressed cities lacked capacity to improve as much.
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Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1
From Plato to Polio
Chronic Disease in Historical Context
Chapter 2
An Awakening
Medicine and Illness in Post–World War Two America
Chapter 3
Disability Rights, Civil Rights, and Chronic Illness
Chapter 4
The Women’s Health Movement and Patient Empowerment
Chapter 5
Culture, Consumerism, and Character
Chronic Illness and Patient Advocacy in the 1980s and 1990s
Chapter 6
A Slight Hysterical Tendency
Revisiting “The Girl Who Cried Pain”
Chapter 7
Into the Fray
Patients in the Digital Age
Chapter 8
Participatory Medicine and Transparency
Chapter 9
What Future, at What Cost?
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
By the Same Author
A Note on the Author
For Victoria,
my joy
Introduction
When I was growing up in the 1980s and ’90s, Boston’s famed Longwood
Medical Area was as much my place of education as the small parochial
grammar school I attended. Some of my most vivid memories were of my
mother driving me down Route 9 to my doctor appointments, past the strip
malls and chain restaurants of the western suburbs, past the reservoir in
Brookline, where the crimson autumn leaves formed a circle around the
gray expanse of water. These morning drives are almost always sunny and
autumnal in my memory; we would squint up as we were stopped at traffic
lights, always worried about being a little late, always underestimating the
drive or underestimating our likelihood of getting every red light through
three or four towns.
If it was a good appointment, I’d leave with an antibiotic script for my
ever-present ear and sinus infections, a follow-up appointment, or a referral
for yet another specialist for my wheezy lungs. If it was a bad appointment,
it would usually involve a CT scan, a blood test, or the scheduling of
another surgery. Either way, we’d get in the car and head back down Route
9, usually too late for me to make it back to school—I knew this would
happen but wore my uniform anyway—but just early enough to beat rush-
hour traffic. We would talk about my upcoming surgery, or about the books
I would get as presents for my recovery, or the classes I’d missed and the
sleepover I hoped I’d make it to on the weekend.
But chronic illness? I don’t remember hearing that term, and I certainly
don’t remember using it in reference to my own patient experiences. I lived
in reaction to each illness event, never quite acknowledging the larger
pattern.
It wasn’t just another infection, another setback, another disruption. It
wasn’t going to go away.
Certainly, I don’t blame the grade school version of myself for
overlooking this distinction, or the high school and college version, either.
Even if I knew it intellectually by then, emotionally it was another
adjustment altogether. And I know I wasn’t alone. In fact, I think this is the
most daunting aspect of any chronic illness, whether you are the patient
grappling with a diagnosis or a healthy person who hopes it never happens
to you: It isn’t going .
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Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1
From Plato to Polio
Chronic Disease in Historical Context
Chapter 2
An Awakening
Medicine and Illness in Post–World War Two America
Chapter 3
Disability Rights, Civil Rights, and Chronic Illness
Chapter 4
The Women’s Health Movement and Patient Empowerment
Chapter 5
Culture, Consumerism, and Character
Chronic Illness and Patient Advocacy in the 1980s and 1990s
Chapter 6
A Slight Hysterical Tendency
Revisiting “The Girl Who Cried Pain”
Chapter 7
Into the Fray
Patients in the Digital Age
Chapter 8
Participatory Medicine and Transparency
Chapter 9
What Future, at What Cost?
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
By the Same Author
A Note on the Author
For Victoria,
my joy
Introduction
When I was growing up in the 1980s and ’90s, Boston’s famed Longwood
Medical Area was as much my place of education as the small parochial
grammar school I attended. Some of my most vivid memories were of my
mother driving me down Route 9 to my doctor appointments, past the strip
malls and chain restaurants of the western suburbs, past the reservoir in
Brookline, where the crimson autumn leaves formed a circle around the
gray expanse of water. These morning drives are almost always sunny and
autumnal in my memory; we would squint up as we were stopped at traffic
lights, always worried about being a little late, always underestimating the
drive or underestimating our likelihood of getting every red light through
three or four towns.
If it was a good appointment, I’d leave with an antibiotic script for my
ever-present ear and sinus infections, a follow-up appointment, or a referral
for yet another specialist for my wheezy lungs. If it was a bad appointment,
it would usually involve a CT scan, a blood test, or the scheduling of
another surgery. Either way, we’d get in the car and head back down Route
9, usually too late for me to make it back to school—I knew this would
happen but wore my uniform anyway—but just early enough to beat rush-
hour traffic. We would talk about my upcoming surgery, or about the books
I would get as presents for my recovery, or the classes I’d missed and the
sleepover I hoped I’d make it to on the weekend.
But chronic illness? I don’t remember hearing that term, and I certainly
don’t remember using it in reference to my own patient experiences. I lived
in reaction to each illness event, never quite acknowledging the larger
pattern.
It wasn’t just another infection, another setback, another disruption. It
wasn’t going to go away.
Certainly, I don’t blame the grade school version of myself for
overlooking this distinction, or the high school and college version, either.
Even if I knew it intellectually by then, emotionally it was another
adjustment altogether. And I know I wasn’t alone. In fact, I think this is the
most daunting aspect of any chronic illness, whether you are the patient
grappling with a diagnosis or a healthy person who hopes it never happens
to you: It isn’t going .
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Introduction
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From Plato to Polio
Chronic Disease in Historical Context
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An Awakening
Medicine and Illness in Post–World War Two America
Chapter 3
Disability Rights, Civil Rights, and Chronic Illness
Chapter 4
The Women’s Health Movement and Patient Empowerment
Chapter 5
Culture, Consumerism, and Character
Chronic Illness and Patient Advocacy in the 1980s and 1990s
Chapter 6
A Slight Hysterical Tendency
Revisiting “The Girl Who Cried Pain”
Chapter 7
Into the Fray
Patients in the Digital Age
Chapter 8
Participatory Medicine and Transparency
Chapter 9
What Future, at What Cost?
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
By the Same Author
A Note on the Author
For Victoria,
my joy
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Medical Area was as much my place of education as the small parochial
grammar school I attended. Some of my most vivid memories were of my
mother driving me down Route 9 to my doctor appointments, past the strip
malls and chain restaurants of the western suburbs, past the reservoir in
Brookline, where the crimson autumn leaves formed a circle around the
gray expanse of water. These morning drives are almost always sunny and
autumnal in my memory; we would squint up as we were stopped at traffic
lights, always worried about being a little late, always underestimating the
drive or underestimating our likelihood of getting every red light through
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If it was a good appointment, I’d leave with an antibiotic script for my
ever-present ear and sinus infections, a follow-up appointment, or a referral
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happen but wore my uniform anyway—but just early enough to beat rush-
hour traffic. We would talk about my upcoming surgery, or about the books
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sleepover I hoped I’d make it to on the weekend.
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in reaction to each illness event, never quite acknowledging the larger
pattern.
It wasn’t just another infection, another setback, another disruption. It
wasn’t going to go away.
Certainly, I don’t blame the grade school version of myself for
overlooking this distinction, or the high school and college version, either.
Even if I knew it intellectually by then, emotionally it was another
adjustment altogether. And I know I wasn’t alone. In fact, I think this is the
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An Awakening
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Culture, Consumerism, and Character
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A Slight Hysterical Tendency
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Into the Fray
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Participatory Medicine and Transparency
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grammar school I attended. Some of my most vivid memories were of my
mother driving me down Route 9 to my doctor appointments, past the strip
malls and chain restaurants of the western suburbs, past the reservoir in
Brookline, where the crimson autumn leaves formed a circle around the
gray expanse of water. These morning drives are almost always sunny and
autumnal in my memory; we would squint up as we were stopped at traffic
lights, always worried about being a little late, always underestimating the
drive or underestimating our likelihood of getting every red light through
three or four towns.
If it was a good appointment, I’d leave with an antibiotic script for my
ever-present ear and sinus infections, a follow-up appointment, or a referral
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it would usually involve a CT scan, a blood test, or the scheduling of
another surgery. Either way, we’d get in the car and head back down Route
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happen but wore my uniform anyway—but just early enough to beat rush-
hour traffic. We would talk about my upcoming surgery, or about the books
I would get as presents for my recovery, or the classes I’d missed and the
sleepover I hoped I’d make it to on the weekend.
But chronic illness? I don’t remember hearing that term, and I certainly
don’t remember using it in reference to my own patient experiences. I lived
in reaction to each illness event, never quite acknowledging the larger
pattern.
It wasn’t just another infection, another setback, another disruption. It
wasn’t going to go away.
Certainly, I don’t blame the grade school version of myself for
overlooking this distinction, or the high school and college version, either.
Even if I knew it intellectually by then, emotionally it was another
adjustment altogether. And I know I wasn’t alone. In fact, I think this is the
most daunting aspect of any chronic illness, whether you are the patient
grappling with a diagnosis or a healthy person who hopes it never happens
to you: It isn’t going .
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2. Citation: Chapa G (2015) Community and Help Seeking. J AIDS Clin Res 6: 512. doi:10.4172/2155-6113.1000512
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hoping they would see I wanted to help. I told them I would do what
I could about the lots. I was thinking how much more dangerous rats
would be than needles but I did not want to further scare them. I
couldn’t stop thinking about rats because a rat bit me in Chicago when
I was four – this was what I knew. But I couldn’t specify rats because
if I did they might not tell me their real concern. I remembered
community research professors telling us not to ask questions that had
our concerns because a community intervention is for the community.
First my guests said the more obvious, which did include tetanus and
the they finally said “SIDA”. They were afraid of AIDS. They were
worried about HIV infected needles. My NIDA grant involved needle
exchange but, in retrospect, it never occurred to me what people did
with used needles. This type of community information, from people
who can fill in information for both service providers and researchers,
is a vital for creating relevant interventions.
As I brought in more grants, local funders asked me to review
proposals and when I did, my comments, I felt, were not always taken
seriously. I was in grant meetings in support of community facing
programs – not for the sake of pure research. I was the community
advocate. It was a great privilege to learn from real people but if I,
sometimes, felt voiceless, how did they feel?
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