“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.

chronic inflammatory conditions. The chapter they wanted her to write was on the patient experience of chronic illness and the gap between clinical documentation and the lived reality of the diseases nurses treated.

She wanted to know if I would read a draft.

I said yes.

She sent it three weeks later. I read it in the evening, in my corner of my apartment continue reading …