“She Just Doesn’t Want to Work,” My Mother Told Her Nursing Staff About My Condition. I Silently Slid My Medical File Across the Table to Her Chief of Medicine. Her Next Shift Was Her Last.

brought it to the appointment because Dr. Harrison had asked me to bring my records from the previous quarter for comparison. It was a complete file. Three years of documentation: lab results, imaging, the rheumatology notes that tracked my disease progression in the careful, specific language that medical records use, the language that does not editorialize continue reading …