Symptoms and their societal side effects - the hardest part of illness is not always harboring it, but being around those who cannot understand it, will not treat it, and may not even believe it. This book contains a collection of poems and illustrations that represent first-hand encounters with the "white coat man", an allegory for bias in the treatment of women and minorities within healthcare, often resulting in medical gaslighting.
Patient is a Young Woman challenges the modern times in which female patients often have no choice but to wait seven years for a medical diagnosis and are routinely sent to psychiatric wards for physical ailments.
... AND TELL HIM THAT HIS MISJUDGEMENT OF YOUR MEDICAL CASE IS CLINICALLY CLASSIFIED AS DELIRIUM
Born in Germany in 1999, raised in Connecticut over childhood, and shaped by disability since her return overseas - Doria Jeanne Nollez is a multidisciplinary artist, filmmaker, and writer who explores chronic illness, the diaspora, and dreamlike states. Her publicly showcased works include one solo exhibition and several film festival screenings.
In her debut poetry collection Patient is a Young Woman, she reflects on a seven-year medical odyssey in search of a diagnosis. Only when she began researching independently, did she find her own illness, which was missed by dozens of doctors and was later confirmed by medical testing.
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