education
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From Subject to Patient Partner: Why I Became a Science Decolonization Writer
When I studied pharmaceutical science in the early 2000s, my professors taught me that patients were subjects in research. It was clinical, unquestioned, and, in hindsight, disturbingly normalized. The word “subject” implied submission. It implied that knowledge, control, and authority… Continue reading
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Why I refuse to take an IQ test.
A few years ago, while in therapy, a psychologist wrote on an assessment report that I had a high IQ. They didn’t test me. They just noted, as a matter of fact. As my heart raced as I read the… Continue reading

