| What an education Jo Beth had about today's doctors and their attitudes toward women with lupus. Lupus causes damage by the body's defenses attacking the body--any part of the body. The original lupus "bible", written by a man named Dubois, is one honkin' fat book--all those pages are needed in order to fit the host of ways the body can be affected. But when it comes to letting women know what to be aware of, Dr. Dubois does not need many words. Here is a summary of what he tells doctors to tell their female patients: "Nothing! We don't want to worry their pretty little heads..." The "justification" for this is that the disease itself can cause psychological effects through action on the brain, through pain and discomfort, and through stress, and we don't want to stress these women any further, since stress aggravates the disease. |
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Where Jo Beth learns about the lupus "bible".
Where Jo Beth learns about the lupus "bible".
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| How lupus does what it does. |
