读者们，一切都在向着玫瑰花前进。

两周前，我很 published my health care manifesto, outlining my vision for our future as patients. We must empower patients to take charge of their care, and Barred Owl Press is making educating patients our mission.

Today, I’ll showcase our next three articles, scheduled to run over the next two months.

Our next edition’s theme: Talking to our docs.

The first essay is by a Florida political spouse about a doctor who gave her an early, and reckless, misdiagnosis: The doctor told her she was likely dying of a terminal illness. The writer examines how easily she might have forgone treatment altogether in the face of such dire, albeit inaccurate, news.

Our second piece is reported from the U.K. It’s about the language patients use to describe their symptoms, and how it should become more specific. Women’s diseases are more likely to be misdiagnosed in western medicine, a patriarchal system. So for now, the burden falls on women to improve their metaphors, so that their bigger problems like endometriosis don’t continue to be confused with basic period cramps.

The third essay is by another U.K. journalist who spent a year-and-a-half fighting to be believed by her doctors about her hyperthyroidism. The writer takes us from her hometown on England’s western peninsulas, to her college campus at Oxford, and then in her boyfriend’s town in the north, visit-by-visit with a string of physicians, and into the underbelly of their national health system.

Last but not least, I 兴奋地介绍了Barred Owl出版社+Kirsten Kramer的2021年夏季作品集！这本作品集是在我们的《心理健康与冠状病毒》一文中的玫瑰插图和蝴蝶图画的基础上设计的。

整个系列是基于本说明顶部的玫瑰花插图和我们的心理健康和冠状病毒文章中的蝴蝶图。它将继续在整个夏天推出。不过，到了秋天，它就会消失。

所以现在就买吧!

和平与爱。

亚历山德拉