Advocacy Education - Hope 411 https://hope411.org Pursuing Health Equity Mon, 31 Jul 2023 08:35:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.1 https://hope411.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Hope-411-pheonix-logo-512-x-512-px-75x75.png Advocacy Education - Hope 411 https://hope411.org 32 32 Patients Forced to Play Medical Roulette https://hope411.org/advocacy-center/pain-advocacy/patients-forced-to-play-medical-roulette/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=patients-forced-to-play-medical-roulette https://hope411.org/advocacy-center/pain-advocacy/patients-forced-to-play-medical-roulette/#comments Sat, 11 Jun 2022 04:17:58 +0000 https://hope411.org/?p=1215 For patients with rare disease, complex chronic illnesses and disabilities navigating the health care system has become a fight for survival. Patients experience systemic disability discrimination and bias when attempting to obtain or retain access to treatments and medications vital to managing their health.

Due to interference with the practice of medicine patients are being forced to play a game of medical roulette.

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