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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."
...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 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
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
That's not funny. My brother died from dyslexia.
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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?