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Podcast: The Flare Up Show
Episode: Episode #72 - Impact of Empathy with Shari Bookstaff
Description: The reason I started this show was my journey through medical misdiagnosis and gaslighting. Today I have a beautiful guest who shares her own story and how it inspired her to create a non-profit that teaches the benefits of empathy in the medical system.
Shari Bookstaff had fulfilled her lifelong childhood dreams and was a tenured marine biology professor near San Francisco. She was thriving in her career and her personal life when sporadic dizzy spells and nausea led to a diagnosed benign brain tumor. Even though this was a large tumor that had to be removed...