Inspector Squirrel’s Multicultural Medical Notebook

Editor’s note: Originally posted in 2022, the correct total on 4/13/2025 is 409* views, according to the admin stats, not the error message count listed below.
Post corrections unnecessary in 2022 were made on 4/11/25.

*See Editor’s note post.

Updated 4/13/25

A revised nondigital format with a different title and cover will be available this year solely for group purchases.

Women and people of color frequently face bias and racism when seeking medical care. And even celebrities are not protected.

According to Dayna Bowen Matthew, JD, Ph.D., author of Just Medicine, implicit bias and unintentional racism while seeking health care are challenges.

Due diligence? Self-advocacy? Take responsibility? However, if one follows these paths, the actions may not produce the expected results.

Unfortunately, unless studying for a university graduate degree, important legal medical issues are not taught early, such as in high school health education classes, and that is a mistake. ..

Especially since teens account for a large number of accidental injuries.

Unlike many books for consumers, this little multicultural medical notebook is written from a real-world point of view.

Inspector Squirrel’s Multicultural Medical Notebook includes valuable information you won’t find in traditional medical history journals, such as …

An eye-opening article about people of color and prescription drugs.
Tips about fact-gathering information from medical experts.
Better anatomy illustrations that help you show medical personnel where you are feeling pain.
What you should know but probably do not know about red flags and your health records.

Take the following true story.

When a new patient complained of lower arm pain, the healthcare provider noted the issue with a little minus sign added to the notation in the patient’s medical records. The sign means the healthcare provider made an error or did not believe the patient because the dash was a minus sign, indicating the injury was resolved.

Although the patient checked the medical records, the meaning of the little minus sign was unknown to the patient.

However, the sign would not be unknown to the other medical professionals reading the patient’s records. X-rays revealed much later that the patient’s continued complaints were incorrectly diagnosed as emotional.

Inspector Squirrel’s Multicultural Medical Notebook is inspired by firsthand experience and research with conventional and alternative care providers.

Use this unique* medical notebook in 3 ways

As a timesaving inside look at often overlooked issues while navigating the medical marketplace for even a seemingly superficial injury.

2. As a fact-gathering and record-keeping tool.

3. As a supplementary lesson for independent health educators teaching adult or teen students.

*Not intended to replace a traditional medical records journal.

References

Dayna Matthew Bowen. JD, PhD. Just Medicine: A Cure for Racial Inequality in American Health Care”
C-Span 3/8/16
https://www.c-span.org/program/book-tv/just-medicine/428988

For two accounts of unexpected injury to a wrist, see the 2018 post relevant today, titled,
Foresight: The one thing every gig worker, aspiring entrepreneur, or consumer
must not overlook about unexpected medical matters.
https://nichecreativity.com/foresight-the-one-thing-every-gig-worker-aspiring-entrepreneur-or-consumer-must-not-overlook-about-unexpected-medical-matters/