During a science class, Jessica Terry, 18, discovered a tell-tale granuloma in her own pathology slide.
During a science class, Jessica Terry, 18, discovered a tell-tale granuloma in her own pathology slide.
Don’t let Obama hear this....Diagnose your own disease sounds like something he would like in his socialized health plans...LOL
Great for her. I hope her Crohn’s is effectively managed and she one day has a rewarding career in science or medicine.
Shame on her docs. Crohn’s is not a difficult diagnosis.
Sadly this not all good news for Jessica
......Although Terry was relieved to finally get a diagnosis, it was also tough for her to hear that she has such a serious disease.
There are treatments, but there is no cure for Crohn’s, a condition in which the digestive tract becomes inflamed. It can lead to ulcers, malnutrition and other health problems.
“As I get older, the disease can get worse,” Terry told KOMO..........
Prayers to her and her family
Her doctors, no matter how hard they tried, couldn’t figure out the cause of Jessica’s abdominal distress.
Why not??????
I hope the family had some very choice words for the doctor who couldn’t find something a highschool student with basic biology lab tools could.
Wow, that is great. That is one smart young lady there. I hope the best for her.
And if she's wrong she can sue herself for malpractice.
This is a great story and one that is all too familiar.
My teenage daughter was having severe abdominal distress last year and after visiting with 15+ doctors and having every imaginable test none of the doctors had a clue. Her primary care doctor even suggested this was all in her head!
My daughter could barely move due to the pain, was withdrawn from high school, and all the doctors could suggest was pain management. Their best idea was to dope her up to take away the pain but no ideas about the root cause.
One night she saw a story on the mystery diagnosis TV show that provided us with a diagnosis - she has endometriosis. She went to two gynecologists with this idea and both said there was no way she had that because she was too young and had too much pain.
We finally found a very capable doctor in Houston that confirmed the endometriosis as well as diagnosing insulin sensitivity.
Along the way we found almost all doctors have nothing but contempt for patients with a little bit of medical knowledge. Some actually got angry.
My daughter is functioning normally now with absolutely no help from 15 different doctors. If it were up to them she’d be drugged up right now and bedridden IMO.
The moral of the story is to do your own research and keep getting “second” opinions.
Holder will charge her with practicing medicine without a license.
Her real offense, will be not waiting for gooberment medicine to diagnose her correctly.
“Self reliance does not amuse the US Attorney General”.
Are you ready for a doctor-bashing thread?
Sure hope she got an “A” in that class!
Well too bad she didn’t Obama’s health care plan...she wouldn’t have had to hear the bad news for at least another 4 years...
Young eyes vs. older eyes....makes a world of difference! I can hardly put on my makeup, and am only 53. I do not mind gray hair or wrinkles but do miss the eyesight of my youth. Even with glasses or contacts, the seeing is not what it had been.
I would hate to have to work all day in a lab with a microscope at this age.