by David-Elijah Nahmod
Johnson-Wright noted that when she was
a child — in the worst throes of her disease — kids were not treated as
full-fledged humans.
“The pain of kids was not taken as seriously as that of
adult patients,” she said.
“It seems incredible now when I think about it, but
all the years that I received treatment at what was considered a cutting edge
pediatric rheumatology clinic, no one ever asked me how I was managing the
pain.”
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