The COVID-19 pandemic has shined a glaring light on health care disparities—roadblocks or unequal treatment faced by individuals because of race and ethnicity, gender, sexuality, socioeconomic status, lack of health literacy, age, rural residency, or other factors.
Fighting for Access to Treatment for Dual Diagnoses
Disabled, Black, Female, and Queer: The View from ‘the Bottom of the Barrel’
Turning Pain and Tragedy into Advocacy
From Scientist to Patient: When Health Care Equity Becomes a Personal Struggle
Through Pain, a Profusion of Hard-Earned Lessons
Young Twins Navigating Pain Together
Combating the Stereotype of the ‘Angry Black Woman’
Formerly Hesitant to Question Doctors, She Now Speaks Up for Others
Staying Upright—And Helping Others Stand, Too
Fighting for Women in Pain
Pain Paves an Unlikely Path to Becoming Whole