Awakening from a medical mystery: one patient’s experience of being undiagnosed
This personal narrative pleads for a supportive and comprehensive system or sub-system similar to that which exists for cancer patients, to deal with undiagnosed illnesses. By describing the torment of living with a debilitating illness that medicine could not easily recognize, then by contrasting t...
Main Author: | Dwane UnRuh |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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The Beryl Institute
2019-11-01
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Series: | Patient Experience Journal |
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Online Access: | https://pxjournal.org/journal/vol6/iss3/2 |
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