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Tricia Steele

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How to Hire the Right Doctor (and Fire the Wrong One!): Sick Person Guide Series

How to Hire the Right Doctor (and Fire the Wrong One!): Sick Person Guide Series

Steele draws on her experience as an entrepreneur to provide readers with the tools they need to take control of their health.

2023

Stories

Pinned

Published in
Science Spectrum

How Do Viruses Work?

The form and function of life’s oldest enemy

Feb 26

How Do Viruses Work?

Feb 26

Pinned

Published in
Beloved

A Stranger Left Her Child With Me

Lessons about parenting, love, and society from a little girl and a thousand strangers

Feb 5

A Stranger Left Her Child With Me

Feb 5

Published in
Beloved

I Never Expected This Consent Lesson

Pre-teens, ice cream, and the real meaning of “no”

Feb 14

I Never Expected This Consent Lesson

Feb 14

Published in
Invisible Illness

Resilience Was Born From My Mistakes

Lessons from mountain life for the land of chronic illness

Feb 8

Resilience Was Born From My Mistakes

Feb 8

Published in
With Love

Why Parents Need A Closer Village

The day I found mine through feet of snow

Jan 17

Toddler is bundled in crocheted hat and knit sweater and looking over mom’s shoulder who is carrying him and walking away from the camera. They are both bundled for the snow.

Jan 17

Published in
The Memoirist

The Sisterhood of Collapsing Lungs

The supposed rare disease many women don’t even know they have until they can’t breathe

Jan 9

Greyscale pencil drawing of the intertwined airways and blood vessels inside a lung

Jan 9

Published in
Engage

Invited Behind The Doctor’s Desk: A Rare Disease & Offer Reshaped My View of Healthcare

The day the doctor and patient switched roles revealed a stark truth about the gap between healthcare tech and experience.

Sep 23, 2024

Hospital entrance hall with blue-gray walls adorned with smooth natural-colored clustered stones and recessed lighting and a sign pointing ahead for admissions or radiology.

Sep 23, 2024

Published in
An Idea (by Ingenious Piece)

In the Chronic Cave: How to Prepare for Flares

Only you can fully accompany yourself when chronic illness flares. Use these mental and environmental tricks to help you prepare.

Jun 15, 2024

In the Chronic Cave: How to Prepare for Flares

Jun 15, 2024

Recurring Revenue Rules for Healthcare

When my husband woke up with his new pacemaker, there was a box on his bed. I had no idea that plugging it in would cost me $2000.

Mar 19, 2024

Recurring Revenue Rules for Healthcare

Mar 19, 2024

Just A Moment Then We’re Through

I sit in a chair writing on a Friday when I don’t have anywhere to be and no kids or visitors. Without much warning, rain starts pounding…

Jun 3, 2022

Just A Moment Then We’re Through

Jun 3, 2022

Tricia Steele

Tricia Steele

Book Author

Freelance science writer. Essayist & memoirist at heart. Physics (Berry) Immunology, Physiology (Harvard) Science Writing (Hopkins). Mom & Lolly to many.

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