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What If Communities Living With Rare Conditions held the Key to a More Humane Medicine? Report from the World Orphan Drug Congress 2025, Amsterdam.
The next scientific revolution will be led by patients’ wisdom and human dignity, and it won’t be televised. Last week, at the World Orphan Drug Congress in Amsterdam, I had a profound experience. As I moved between conversations—wearing my different… Continue reading
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Beyond the P-Value: Decolonizing What Counts as Significant in Medicine—A Patient-Empowering Story to Reclaim our Human Reality (Short Book actively searching for a publishing house)
How a simple statistical number became medicine’s cultural gatekeeper—and how we reclaim truth beyond binaries. TRIGGER WARNING The following text contains the overlooked, invaluable lived experiences of countless humans with the hegemony of modern Western science over patients and humanity—its… Continue reading
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🌿 Summer of Unlearning Series: A Reading Series for Reimagining Healthcare – Week 3 Audre Lorde’s The Cancer Journals—Where Silence Becomes Strength
Why This Book? When Audre Lorde faced breast cancer as a racialized Black lesbian poet in 1977, she refused Western medicine’s scripts of shame. The Cancer Journals (1980) is a manifesto against systems that erase marginalized bodies. Lorde exposes how Western medicine: “Prosthesis… Continue reading
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🌿 Summer of Unlearning Series: A Reading Series for Reimagining Healthcare – Week 2 – Ed Cohen’s A Body Worth Defending – What if our bodies aren’t battlefields?
Every Friday until summer vacation, I’ll share a book that cracks open the foundations of medical science—so you can build a liberatory reading list for the break. This series honors the artist-researchers with whom I collaborate as a science decolonization… Continue reading
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🌍 International Mental Health Day: Centering Marginalized Voices in the Mental Health Conversation
Today, October 10th is International Mental Health Day. In 2024, the focus is on the workplace.I am grateful that my professional place provides mental health resources to support its dedicated workforce’s diverse experiences and needs. As an African descendant, Asian-raised… Continue reading
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