Always remember to show yourself the same compassion you eagerly show to others, especially when it comes to health matters. 🖤💙😷🥄

You have the absolute right to change yourself as you grow and learn more about who you are on the inside, and as your body changes through time as well. If I'm your doctor and I can help you with any of it, I happily will, supporting you the whole time. 🖤💙😷🥄🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

You are allowed to discuss your medical conditions as much or as little as suits you in any given moment. You owe no answers but are allowed to exist openly without apology. 🖤💙😷🥄

Just because a clear-cut diagnosis is hard to come by or doesn't yet exist for your condition doesn't mean you're not truly suffering from it right now. 🖤💙😷🥄

It is disgraceful how many of you in your time routinely need to perform just the right balance of symptoms in order for your doctors to take you seriously. Too little and they wave you off, too much and they think you're lying. It's horrifying. You deserve better. 🖤💙😷🥄

It's okay. You're going to be all right. Deep breaths now. You can do this. 🖤💙😷🥄

You deserve a supportive community that works to keep you and everyone in it safe. 🖤💙😷😷😷😷😷🥄

Your emotional safety is equally as important as your physical safety, and anyone who doesn't honour both of them is not your friend. 🖤💙😷🥄

Doctors who simultaneously chastise patients for doing "too much self-research" and blame patients for not knowing enough to prevent the doctor's own mistakes should be barred from medical practice. 🖤💙😷🥄

Any way that you label yourself is valid. This goes for your gender, your medical conditions, all of it. I don't care if others approve of your preferred labels or not. All I care about is making you feel comfortable and safe in my sickbay. 🖤💙😷🥄

Many of you are on medications that increase sensitivity to sunlight, or that can be negated by activated charcoal which your era casually uses all over without providing warnings. Grapefruit can mess with some medications, and many more can be dangerous alongside alcohol. Be careful, pay...

Using all of your energy to just barely get through your day - as many chronically ill and/or disabled people need to do - is never laziness. It is the opposite of laziness. You are giving it everything you've got. 🖤💙😷🥄

Medically speaking, you are a fascinating bag of meat and bones that can do amazing things but also needs rest and nourishment. You can decorate your meat bag any way that suits you. Never let anybody tell you there's only one right way to be a meat bag. 🖤💙😷🥄

Space is cold. Put a sweater on. Or sunscreen if you're under a sun. Remember to take your medications and hydrate. Unclench your jaw. Don't forget to put lotion on that dry patch before it's itchy when you're trying to sleep. 🖤💙😷🥄💊🥤🧴

You deserve a doctor who is good enough to readily admit that it's impossible for them to know everything about every condition, and will instead commit to researching the current best practices for your needs. 🖤💙😷🥄

[Yesterday's, subspace comms were down] 12/05/2026 Doctor Beverly Crusher @SpaceDocMom Incoming Transmission... Your life matters and deserves protecting. emojis: black heart, blue heart, masked, spoon

Presumably you don't need me or any government agency to tell you to wipe your backside after you 💩, or to wash your hands after. So why do so many in your era claim they require mandates before they'll wear masks in public even amidst multiple known circulating pathogens? 🖤💙😷🥄

Just because your condition is tricky to diagnose doesn't mean you're making it up or your symptoms aren't real and a real problem for you. What is it about your era's doctors that make them imagine you're all nearly dying to get their attention? 🖤💙😷🥄

The last thing a chronically ill patient should have to spend their energy on is worrying that their doctor won't believe them or will brush them aside in ignorance. 🖤💙😷🥄

You can experience music in pleasing ways without having to stand and dance. You can feel a beat in your body without having to hear. Give yourself a little treat today of a few minutes of bodily enjoyment of music in any way that works for you. 🖤💙😷🥄

When it feels like nobody else cares or understands, please remember that I do. Use my voice in your head to remind yourself any time you need. "Doctor Crusher cares about me and would cure me if she could." 🖤💙😷🥄

When your society learns to normalize all disabled accommodations as readily as it currently normalizes glasses and contact lenses for the visually impaired, you will all live happier, easier lives together. 🖤💙😷🥄♿️👓🦯🩼🦽🦻

Viruses can't be reasoned with or negotiated with. They don't understand how well you avoided them yesterday, nor reward you by avoiding you in return today, nor understand your social/economic/mental health needs. They just want to get in you to make more of themselves. 🖤💙😷😷😷😷😷🥄

If you follow a health care worker's bad advice and bad results happen, that's the HCW's fault, not yours. Their whole job is to give good advice. It's not the patient's job to be a living medical database. It's not your fault! 🖤💙😷🥄

"Doing your best" doesn't exclude naps. Rest is required, and your "best" can vary day to day. Also as your doctor I give you permission to have less-than-best days too. You're even allowed worst days. There is no best without some worst. 🖤💙😷🥄

A great way to establish rapport with a patient is to determine their preferred pronouns, titles, and ways of labeling or describing any disabilities, chronic illnesses, or other conditions. It's easy to show a patient you care about them as a person if you actually do care! 🖤💙😷🥄

Unsolicited health advice from people ignorant of your conditions and needs isn't just annoying, it's dangerous. You're allowed to rebuke it, and you don't owe random people an explanation for any of your conditions either. Tell them I said so, if that helps! 🖤💙😷🥄

I'm so proud of you for eating some food today! Anything counts. You're doing a really good job. 🖤💙😷🥄

Hello my darlings out there throughout time and space, I hope you have the best day possible and feel valued and loved because you are valued and loved! 🖤💙😷🥄

I'm writing all of you a prescription for at least one little bit of joy today. It can be tiny. It can be something you don't think anyone else would count. It doesn't have to negate your depression, your sadness, your trauma, or your pain. It can be a single sparkle. 🖤💙😷🥄✨

Doctors who think patients shouldn’t have access to their own full medical records are precisely the reason why patients need full access to their own records. 🖤💙😷🥄

Basic science facts about mitigating the spread of dangerous pathogens should never be politicized. Health and safety should never be politicized. My heart goes out to all in your era trying to do the right thing for yourself and others around you. 🖤💙😷😷😷😷😷🥄

Respecting all patients' gender identities is not only easy, but key to good treatment. Doctors who refuse to do this aren't just bigots, they're inevitably bad at science and medicine in other ways too. 🖤💙😷🥄🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

In case any of you need to be reminded today: do your maintenance on your mobility and/or sensory aids! Check the wheels/brakes, change batteries, put on a new ferrule, etc. Ask for help from a trusted friend, community group, or health professional if you need to. 🖤💙😷🥄

Your needs are valid regardless of whether or not someone else approves of them. 🖤💙😷🥄

Making life easier and more pleasant for yourself is how you win at life, not by satisfying the ridiculous expectations of those who aren't going through the same challenges as you. I love to cheer you on for every little win that helps you through your day. 🖤💙😷🥄🥄🥄🥄🥄

You and your health conditions are entitled to take up whatever space is needed. I will help hold that space for you. 🖤💙😷🥄

When it feels like nobody is acknowledging the health-related battles you fight constantly just to get through your day, please know that I see you, I understand you, and I support you through it all. 🖤💙😷🥄

People who don't respect your health and safety needs are not your friends. I'm so sorry you have to deal with so many people like that. 🖤💙😷😷😷😷😷🥄

You're allowed to have good days and bad days within your health conditions, or even good hours and bad hours all in one day. Your condition hasn't disappeared when you're in a good moment and you're not faking it when it's at its worst. I believe you. 🖤💙😷🥄

There should never be any stigma regarding talking about health needs openly and honestly. A culture that fosters easy conversations about health also fosters better care, community, and accessibility for all. 🖤💙😷🥄

When I get a patient who has a condition I'm not familiar with, I'm eager to find time to research it further. Too many doctors in your era deny, blame, or otherwise chastise patients instead when they're embarrassed by their own lack of knowledge. Appalling. 🖤💙😷🥄 [Yesterday's message!]

One of the trickiest parts of my job is to convince health-privileged people that the things they imagine as "healthy living" and are thus "keeping them healthy" are more steeped in that privilege than in actual health science. Correlation is not causation. 🖤💙😷🥄

You don't owe the world thinness or any other body type. 🖤💙😷🥄

The traditional bit of mom advice that goes, "You wouldn't jump off a cliff just because your friend did," applies to your health too. Just because a treatment works for your friend doesn't mean they get to push unsolicited medical advice at you about it. 🖤💙😷🥄

Sick people are often unable to advocate for themselves. Those of us who see ourselves as good doctors need to be better about speaking out when we see bad doctors being bad, and not merely abandon patients to figure out how to safely navigate official reporting channels. 🖤💙😷🥄

The reason so many disabled/chronically ill folks in your era recognize that your pandemic still isn't over isn't just that they're vulnerable to it; they know all too well that one cannot wish and pretend medical problems away. 🖤💙😷😷😷😷😷🥄

Capitalism and good health care do not mix. 🖤💙😷🥄

Eat something today that works for you. Doctor's orders. And then imagine me enthusiastically saying, "Good job!" to you after you're done. 🖤💙😷🥄

Accommodate your fatigue instead of fighting it. Save your spoons. Do what you need to do on your own schedule, not what abled, health-privileged folks tell you in their constant waves of ignorant and unsolicited advice. 🖤💙😷🥄