Slashdot Mirror
Teen Diagnoses Her Own Disease In Science Class
18-year-old Jessica Terry suffered from stomach pain, diarrhea, vomiting and fever for eight years. She often missed school and her doctors were unable to figure out the cause of her sickness. Then one day in January someone was finally figured out what was wrong with Jessica. That person was her. While looking under a microscope at slides of her own intestinal tissue in her AP science class, Jessica noticed an area of inflamed tissue called a granuloma, which is an indication of Crohn's disease. "It's weird I had to solve my own medical problem," Terry told CNN affiliate KOMO in Seattle, Washington. "There were just no answers anywhere. ... I was always sick."
...FIRST person do this?
...but can't really say which of the multiple personalities established the diagnose. Does this still count as "self-diagnose"?
Intellectual Property: an immaterial non-entity, most fiercely contended by those with no proper intellect to speak of.
The story points out how our health care system is like the Geek Squad: poor troubleshooting. In the end the client has to figure out their problem.
I diagnoezd my own disleksya at skool yeers ago. Since zen I'v goten a lott beter.
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
Finger. Nail. (ouch!)
Don't send a professional to do a teen girls job ?
I don't know, I used to suffer from the exact same symptoms during my years at university living on curry and cheap lager. Bad eating habits is the first thing that came to my mind personally.
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
... if she now gets sued for "stealing" from "Private Doctor Association of America" (I'm sure there is one) by diagnosing her own self and not by paying a doctor to do it? Even though she did visit a pathologist.
Given the choise between Hitler and RIAA/MPAA I'd go for the first one - at least he knew when to shoot himself.
survival of the richest means those with the ability to earn more could reproduce more and dominate the gene pool.
- except they don't
for questions-- see the first 15 minutes of "idiocracy"
every day http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
It only counts as self-diagnosis when one of your personalities is biopsying your brain tissue. Let us know how that works out for you.
John
Never having had any medical schooling but with a little engineering background I made some changes to the protocol for the operation
Sentences like this usually have "duct tape" somewhere in them.
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
most doctors are incompetent
1. Most people are incompetent. ...
2. All doctors are people.
4. SOCRATES IS A MAN!
Let me guess, her body has trouble performing its repeating functions on a regular schedule?
This is a perfect example of why we don't need government run health care. People are just lazy whiners expecting everything to be done for them. With a little bit of effort, you can set up a lab in your house. And we have the Internet now; you can look up any rare disease. Hell, you can even become a doctor yourself and make a profit from the other lazy asses who aren't willing to get off their couches and be as ambitious as you.
While looking under a microscope at slides of her own intestinal tissue
Unfortunately, her scientific career was short-lived because she was thrown out of school after she had actually obtained the sample of her own intestinal tissue in class.
Is this what they mean by "Private Health Care"?
I've calculated my velocity with such exquisite precision that I have no idea where I am.
Lots of people go to college for eight years...
Virginia is for lovers. EVE is for griefers.
Yeah a lot of self diagnoses probably revolved around: "It hurts when I pee ... that bitch/bastard" :-)
Yet to reach a diagnoses, but I've successfully self-medicated.
Get used to it, the more you know, the better you can help yourself.
Certainly true to a point. Last year I was convinced I had cervical cancer after typing my symptoms into the intertubes.
:)
In a panic I went to my doctor. I was relieved when he explained that people with a penis generally are immune to cervical cancer. Who knew?
-----
Point being, an amateur can accurately diagnose a more common issue (i.e. higher odds of occurring), but a professional is better able to pick the zebra out of a herd of horses.
IWtR woerkedd oouth briplliantly fopr me . Engvry bok;dy shold tryuk oit. Nevtr fgelt nbetytere.
Others would jump at the chance!
Yeah a lot of self diagnoses probably revolved around: "It hurts when I pee ... that bitch/bastard" :-)
if you can't remember whether the offender was a bitch or a bastard, you're probably partly to blame
how many pairs of boxer shorts should you own?
It's funny you should mention Scrubs--in one episode Dr. Cox teaches a lesson about exactly that.
Republican-style Universal Health Care
Ingredients: Turkey, Mechanically Separated Turkey, Water, Salt, Flavour.
Someone in my family had self-diagnosed Alzheimer's disease, but I can't remember who.
- RG>
Hey pal, this isn't a pleasantforest, so don't waste my time with pleasantries!