The media about Jolien Plantinga and ‘Komt een Dokter bij de Dokter‘
In Medisch contact Ilse Kleijne wrote the following:
“In ‘Komt een Dokter bij de Dokter’, this previously sceptical about chronic lyme general practioner, reports on how her own recurrent lyme infection is thoroughly and long-term wrecking her health. In the process, she poignantly portrays how difficult it is to be a patient in a world where the medical profession seems unable or unwilling to do anything with the broad combination of symptoms she experiences. How great her despair is when fellow doctors do not seem to listen to what Plantinga is trying to convey as a patient. In which, incidentally, she does not spare herself: as a doctor-patient, she sometimes makes things quite difficult for others too.
Plantinga’s book invites doctors to check with themselves how well he or she really hears and sees the patient – especially those with poorly understood diseases. That willingness doesn’t hurt in times when long-term covid has been added to the list of troublesome illnesses.“
Article in the Stentor.
“We all have our prejudices as human beings, it is no different in medicine. I myself think in retrospect: I have also often acted from unconscious prejudices in my work. Also towards women, even though I am quite a feminist.’ An extensive interview with Jolien Plantinga appeared in De Dokter, the membership magazine of the National General Practitioners Association, in the section ‘My work & me.”
An extensive interview with Jolien Plantinga appeared in De Dokter, the membership magazine of the National General Practitioners Association, in the section ‘My work & me’.
From the article:
“Once upon a time, Jolien Plantinga (46) wanted to write a book about her work titled: The Happy GP. Her book due out on 23 April 2022 was given a very different title: My sensational body. ‘The misadventures of a sick refugee who lived with her and, not much later, her own experiences as a patient provided the completely different angle of her debut.“
In this podcast Marlies Claasen, Day President, presenter, online host, singer, voice over and presentation coach, has an in-depth conversation with Jolien Plantinga about her life with Lyme disease and why this book had to be written.
Frank van Wijck interviewed author Jolien Plantinga for the platform De Eerstelijns and wrote the article: ‘Life after being a general practitioner’
From the article:
“My sensational body’ is an impressive book. Not only because it […] calls attention to the fact that chronic Lyme does exist, […]. But also – and above all – because it is unsentimental, unfiltered raw even.“
100% of the royalties are donated to Lyme research and education.