"Childhood trauma leads to lifelong chronic illness — so why isn’t the medical community helping patients?
When I was twelve, I was coming home from swimming at my neighbor’s dock when I saw an ambulance’s flashing lights in our driveway. I still remember the asphalt burning my feet as I stood, paralyzed, and watched the paramedics take away my father. It was as if I knew those flashing lights were a harbinger that my childhood was over.
At the hospital, a surgeon performed “minor” elective bowel surgery on my young dad. The surgeon made an error, and instead of my father coming home to the 'welcome home' banners we’d painted, he died.
The medical care system failed my father miserably. Then the medical care system began to fail me."
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