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Gersande La Flèche

gersande@millefeuilles.cloud

Joined 2 years, 1 month ago

🍵 Lots of nonfiction, literary fiction, poetry, classical literature, speculative fiction, magical realism, etc.

📖 Beaucoup de non-fiction, de fiction littéraire, de poésie, de classiques, de spéculatif, de réalisme magique, etc.

💬 they/them ; iel/lo 💌 Find me on Mastodon: silvan.cloud/@gersande

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Gersande La Flèche has read 0 of 12 books.

Doing Harm (2018, HarperCollins Publishers) No rating

"In this shocking, hard-hitting expose in the tradition of Naomi Klein and Barbara Ehrenreich, the …

[L]et's acknowledge that we are asking individual women to compensate for the medical system's failures. While some patients may want to be partners in their medical care, and the Internet has certainly made it easier for some patients to educate themselves, not all women have the vast resources required to become "empowered patients."

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More knowledge is a false illusion of empowerment anyways, and is in no way able to bring balance to a harmful patient-doctor power dynamic.

Doing Harm (2018, HarperCollins Publishers) No rating

"In this shocking, hard-hitting expose in the tradition of Naomi Klein and Barbara Ehrenreich, the …

We should all be afraid of what the story of contested illnesses like ME/CFS, chronic Lyme, and chemical intolerance says about the medical system's ability or inability to recognize and respond to emerging diseases.

Doing Harm by  (59%)

Add to that Covid-19, HIV/AIDS, and so many other illnesses...