Dying of Neglect

A young woman is dead because of an ongoing medical scandal.

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Maeve Boothby O’Neill, a 27-year-old woman from Exeter, England, was too sick to digest food, yet over the course of three separate hospital admissions, she was denied life-saving interventions because medical staff attributed her health issues to deliberate behavior. Instead of giving her the nutrients she needed to live, they considered placing her in a psychiatric facility.

Samuel Kronen is a writer living with myalgic encephalomyelitis. You can follow his work on his Substack, Alien Nation.

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