Why Does Getting Medical Care Feel Like Work?

The hidden labor of being a patient in modern healthcare

Jun 12 • Brittani James, MD

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The Problem Was Never Just PCOS

How medicine came to confuse women's health with reproductive health

Jun 4 • Brittani James, MD

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May 2026

Is a Black Doctor Directory Racist?

Why the lawsuit against "Find A Black Doctor" asks the wrong question

May 26 • Brittani James, MD

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Long COVID Changed Everything

What a mass disabling event revealed about medicine’s limits

May 21 • Brittani James, MD

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Is Medical Gaslighting Built Into the Healthcare System?

Medical gaslighting and the institutional failure to recognize suffering

May 14 • Brittani James, MD

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Do Doctors Prescribe Too Many Psychiatric Medications?

Why “just prescribe less” is not the solution—and may make things worse.

May 8 • Brittani James, MD

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October 2025

The Invisible Architecture of Survival

SNAP improves health, lowers costs, and keeps people alive—so why do we still debate feeding the poor?

Oct 31, 2025 • Brittani James, MD

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September 2025

Between Science and Spectacle: The Battle for Health Authority

Why Americans no longer know who to trust with their health, and who profits from the doubt.

Sep 26, 2025 • Brittani James, MD

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The Enemy I Chose to Hear

On Charlie Kirk, and how listening to voices I was taught to despise reshaped my understanding of how we heal

Sep 17, 2025 • Brittani James, MD

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