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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."
It isn't much better here in Europe.
Dr Cavell -- the Slashot OSS doctor.
Do you have a CVS where I can upload by medical records and lab samples for a second opinion? Has anyone seen a Subversion plugin for lab samples?
Every mans' island needs an ocean; choose your ocean carefully.
For I am the Anal Nazi, and anyone with Crohn's disease may not have my secret lube recipe!!!
That's what I would expect from my doctors!!!
No, that is what you _desire_ from your doctor. What you should expect is a level of effort commensurate with the reduced compensation rate 'negotiated' between your insurance carrier and the physician's practice.
Pathologists and lab work in general make money on volume of results, not quality. Mere ethics are supposed to maintain quality.
Now, free medical care for everyone is better how?
Let me guess. You are not a doctor, and you are a natural engineer, whatever that means. You are so prejudiced, it's not funny.
When my daughter first started school - many years ago - she caught impetigo. Now, I had had impetigo as a child myself, but I had completely forgotten the symptoms. Moral of the story: most diseases are actually well known - if you find a competent doctor. Unfortunately, most doctors are incompetent.
WAIT A MINUTE. Your daughter got a disease that you had... Now, most people will only get a handful of diseases in their lifetime, so you forgot a disease in a very small sample set. Whereas the doctor missed a disease among the thousands that he's responsible for diagnosing... And you have the gall to say the doctor was incompetent? You couldn't even recognize one disease in the maybe (being generous) dozen diseases you've had in your life, and you have the temerity to say the doctor failed because he didn't recognize it right away?
All I'm going to say is that if the doctor was 'incompetent', then as a parent, you must be worse than 'incompetent'.
Or maybe we could be logical for a moment and all agree that maybe the job isn't easy and that's why sometimes things are missed?