Browse by condition
Every tag in use, with how many stories carry it and who wrote them. Where a condition has stories from both a doctor and a patient, reading them together is the point of this site.
Conditions and diagnoses
What the story is about, clinically.
- Breast cancer 2 stories: 1 from a doctor, 1 from a patient
- Depression 1 story: 1 from a doctor
- Heart attack 2 stories: 1 from a doctor, 1 from a patient
- Infertility 1 story: 1 from a patient
- Kidney failure 2 stories: 1 from a doctor, 1 from a patient
- Premature birth 2 stories: 1 from a doctor, 1 from a patient
- Stroke 1 story: 1 from a doctor
- Type 1 diabetes 1 story: 1 from a patient
Treatments and procedures
What was done, or endured.
- Angioplasty 2 stories: 1 from a doctor, 1 from a patient
- Cardiac rehabilitation 2 stories: 1 from a doctor, 1 from a patient
- Dialysis 2 stories: 1 from a doctor, 1 from a patient
- Insulin pump 1 story: 1 from a patient
- IVF 1 story: 1 from a patient
- Kidney transplant 1 story: 1 from a patient
- Mastectomy 2 stories: 1 from a doctor, 1 from a patient
- Neonatal intensive care 2 stories: 1 from a doctor, 1 from a patient
- Reconstruction 1 story: 1 from a patient
- Rehabilitation 1 story: 1 from a doctor
Topics
The human thread running through the story.
- Being believed 4 stories: 1 from a doctor, 3 from patients
- Body image 1 story: 1 from a patient
- Breaking bad news 2 stories: 1 from a doctor, 1 from a patient
- Caregiving 2 stories: 1 from a doctor, 1 from a patient
- Empathy 10 stories: 6 from doctors, 4 from patients
- Exhaustion 2 stories: 1 from a doctor, 1 from a patient
- Family 6 stories: 2 from doctors, 4 from patients
- Fear 2 stories: 1 from a doctor, 1 from a patient
- Getting it wrong 3 stories: 3 from doctors
- Grief 2 stories: 2 from patients
- Growing up 1 story: 1 from a patient
- Hope 3 stories: 1 from a doctor, 2 from patients
- Listening 5 stories: 5 from doctors
- Returning to work 1 story: 1 from a patient
- Time pressure 1 story: 1 from a doctor
- Waiting 1 story: 1 from a patient
- Work and illness 2 stories: 1 from a doctor, 1 from a patient