09/02/2025
SPEAK UP! Advocate for Yourself and Your Children. Take Up Space ~ Your Space & Your Children's Space.
✅ ️If Your Health Care Providers don't listen, dismiss You & ignore Your questions & concerns, then they clearly don't give a darn, so how are they going to help You and address Your specific needs? ➡️They're not ⬅️
✅ ️I encourage my Patients & Clients to ask questions; be it when they're in front of me or by reaching out with a phone call or text. You will never feel that You can completely Trust Your Provider if they find Your intelligence, advocacy, & due diligence annoying or they mock You. That is not a Healthy environment that promotes optimal health & wellness.
✅️➡️ Your involvement in Your Health Care is absolutely mandatory for healing and sustained wellness. THE ULTIMATE POWER LIES WITHIN YOU and Your consistent daily application of Your Healthcare regimen & Lifestyle shifts that support Your healing & wellness; paired with a Healthcare Team that understands, supports, & guides You.
✅ ️Get a new Provider, interview several, go with the one or two that encourage Patient involvement and education.
No one knows You better than You. Questions are valid. Your needs are valid. Choose the Providers who make You feel seen & heard.
✅ ️This is the Way
You are Loved ❤️
Here’s the thing: in medicine, being labeled “that patient” is real.
Sometimes it’s said with an eye roll in the exam room. Sometimes it’s written into your chart. And once it’s there, it can follow you from one doctor to the next. It’s shorthand for: she asks too many questions, she pushes back, she won’t just go along.
But history shows us why this happens: women’s pain has been dismissed for centuries. We’ve been told we’re “hysterical,” “emotional,” or “noncompliant.” And so many of us have learned to censor ourselves to stay polite, apologetic, agreeable just to avoid the label.
Yet here’s the truth: asking questions, saying no, or trusting your gut doesn’t make you “difficult.” It makes you discerning. It makes you informed. It makes you powerful.
As a physician and midwife, I can tell you this with certainty: women who advocate for themselves not only change their own health outcomes, they change the culture of care for all of us.
👉 Follow .avivaromm if you’re If you’re done with being dismissed, if you’re tired of shrinking yourself to be acceptable.