Footnotes

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• Contributors The idea for this manuscript was collaboratively conceived after iterative exchanges of views between both authors. PR drafted the initial version based on these ideas, except for the personal narrative, which was exclusively written by AMM, sharing her lived experience as a patient. Both authors collaboratively revised and edited the subsequent versions of the manuscript.

• Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.

• Competing interests PR is an associate editor at BMJ Evidence-based Medicine.

• Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; internally peer reviewed.