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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
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"
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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!
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" :-)
IWtR woerkedd oouth briplliantly fopr me . Engvry bok;dy shold tryuk oit. Nevtr fgelt nbetytere.
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.