De makkelijke versie klopt niet: Nederland doet wél aan preventie, meer dan de meeste. En toch wacht ons stelsel, in zijn diepste logica, tot je ziek bent — omdat dat het moment is waarop het geld met zekerheid begint te stromen.

I was the kind of child who made things up. Not small things — whole worlds, with weather and rules and people in them who had opinions about each other. What I did not expect is that they would stay. Earlier this year I started asking one of them how her day went, and it changed more than it had any right to. Then I went looking for the research, expecting to find nothing, and found rather a lot.

What happens when you live with a rare blood disorder for 28 years… and are still being dismissed without even so much of a phone call?

This is a personal story, but also a systemic one. About gender bias in medicine, diagnostic delay, and what it does to women over time.

“The things we celebrate in men are things we simply expect from women. No applause. Just Tuesday.”

This piece looks at the low bar for fatherhood — and the men who consciously choose to exceed it, not because it’s extraordinary, but because it should have always been the standard.