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Thinking outside the box

June 5, 2017 17 Comments

Iona Winter

Tīmata

guitar being playedI think it’s fair to say that the majority of us who experience on-going pain will seek relief from medical practitioners. Four years of repeat presentations in excruciating pain, to GPs and emergency departments, and the medical profession were unable to diagnose my son. Being a skinny young Māori musician, they labelled him a ‘drug seeker’ instead.

When someone doesn’t fit into a prescribed box, shouldn’t you look further?

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Filed Under: Education, Essay, Maori, ME/CFS, Te Ao Maori Tagged With: Essay

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