Teen Diagnoses Her Own Disease In Science Class 582
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."
Was she the.... (Score:4, Funny)
...FIRST person do this?
Engrish? (Score:2, Funny)
I suspect I may have Multiple Personality Disorder (Score:5, Funny)
Health Care (Score:5, Funny)
So what (Score:5, Funny)
I diagnoezd my own disleksya at skool yeers ago. Since zen I'v goten a lott beter.
Re:Maybe an old Crohn's disease (Score:3, Funny)
Moral of the story... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Hmm (Score:5, Funny)
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.
I wonder... (Score:4, Funny)
it's called evolution... (Score:5, Funny)
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"
Re:I suspect I may have Multiple Personality Disor (Score:5, Funny)
Re:One more such case,...me (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Re:So what (Score:2, Funny)
As I always tell others:
I put the sex in dyslexia!
Re:This does not surprise me at all. (Score:5, Funny)
most doctors are incompetent
1. Most people are incompetent. ...
2. All doctors are people.
4. SOCRATES IS A MAN!
Cron's disease? (Score:2, Funny)
Let me guess, her body has trouble performing its repeating functions on a regular schedule?
See? We don't need government-run health care (Score:1, Funny)
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.
Re:So what (Score:5, Funny)
That's not funny. My brother died from dyslexia.
unfortunately (Score:3, Funny)
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.
Re:Health Care (Score:3, Funny)
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.
Well, I wouldn't trust any of my systems, electronic or biological, to a group of people primarily employed to bite the heads off chickens.
Re:Health Care (Score:3, Funny)
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've got a brainsplitting headache"
"Have you tried switching it off and on again?"
I have to ask... (Score:3, Funny)
Is this what they mean by "Private Health Care"?
Re:Hmm (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Surprised? (Score:5, Funny)
Self Medication (Score:1, Funny)
Yet to reach a diagnoses, but I've successfully self-medicated.
Re:Not the last one (Score:4, Funny)
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?
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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.
Re:I suspect I may have Multiple Personality Disor (Score:5, Funny)
IWtR woerkedd oouth briplliantly fopr me . Engvry bok;dy shold tryuk oit. Nevtr fgelt nbetytere.
Re:No threat to doctors (Score:1, Funny)
Others would jump at the chance!
Re:Surprised? (Score:5, Funny)
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
Re:Hmm (Score:5, Funny)
It's funny you should mention Scrubs--in one episode [mopnt.com] Dr. Cox teaches a lesson about exactly that.
I believe this is called... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:I suspect I may have Multiple Personality Disor (Score:3, Funny)
Someone in my family had self-diagnosed Alzheimer's disease, but I can't remember who.
- RG>
Re:So what (Score:3, Funny)