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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.

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Oct 30, 2025

Joy Backfills The Pain

Writing is cold water immersion for change & grief

Joy Backfills The Pain

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Oct 25, 2025

Understanding, Authority, and Agency

How Neurodivergent Needs Can Improve Processes & Redefine Loyalty

Understanding, Authority, and Agency

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Tricia Steele

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Apr 14, 2025

Startup Stress Triggered A Rare Brain Condition

Why entrepreneurs must protect their health ROI

Five consecutive beige hospital chairs are separated by cream curtains pulled back with one extra seat for each station and a rolling charting cart.

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Science Spectrum

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Feb 26, 2025

How Do Viruses Work?

The form and function of life’s oldest enemy

How Do Viruses Work?

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Beloved

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Tricia Steele

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Feb 5, 2025

A Stranger Left Her Child With Me

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

A Stranger Left Her Child With Me

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Zenite

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Tricia Steele

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Nov 4, 2025

Opting Out Creates New Options

Why change doesn’t require certainty

Opting Out Creates New Options

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Tricia Steele

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Aug 11, 2025

The Metaphor that Changed My Parenting Forever

Here’s why I will never punish my kid again (and what I’m doing instead!)

The Metaphor that Changed My Parenting Forever

Tricia Steele

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May 2, 2025

The Day The Quiet Farmer Had A Fit

The stories we might have heard about autism in history

The Day The Quiet Farmer Had A Fit

Tricia Steele

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Mar 27, 2025

Mark Your Lookout Points

How I envision the chronic illness cycles and keep going

Mark Your Lookout Points

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Tricia Steele

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Feb 14, 2025

I Never Expected This Consent Lesson

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

I Never Expected This Consent Lesson

Tricia Steele

Tricia Steele

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I built healthcare systems. Then I became a patient inside them. Johns Hopkins trained science writer, patient advocate, founder of Sick Person Guide.

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