🧵 It’s Friday and I am LIVID. I’ve talked to THREE young women (in their 20s/30s) this week alone, who can’t get adequate medical care for complex illness and/or pain, and so are strongly considering applying for #MAID. As much as I’m not anti-MAID, this is beyond unacceptable.
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The common threads: severe unmitigated pain, severe GI motility disease, inability to access doctors who are knowledgeable about and willing to take on patients with complex illness (especially Dysautonomia, EDS, Gastroparesis), and inability to access REAL pain management.