Feeling dismissed while seeking heart failure treatment

Heart failure patient Nefertari shares her experience feeling dismissed by healthcare providers while seeking treatment.

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  • Facing stigma while seeking a heart failure diagnosis

  • Living with heart failure as a patient of color

  • Challenges accessing care for heart failure

  • Access to heart failure resources as a person of color

  • Advocating for yourself with heart failure

  • Feeling dismissed while seeking diabetes treatment

  • Understanding heart failure: finding support

  • Understanding sodium and heart failure

  • When to call your physician while living with heart failure

  • How to manage heart failure medications

Up Next

  • Facing stigma while seeking a heart failure diagnosis

  • Living with heart failure as a patient of color

  • Challenges accessing care for heart failure

  • Access to heart failure resources as a person of color

  • Advocating for yourself with heart failure

  • Feeling dismissed while seeking diabetes treatment

  • Understanding heart failure: finding support

  • Understanding sodium and heart failure

  • When to call your physician while living with heart failure

  • How to manage heart failure medications

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