In the spring of 2009, I was the 217th person ever to be diagnosed with anti- N M D A-receptor autoimmune encephalitis. Just a year later, that figure had doubled. Now the number is in the thousands. Yet Dr. Bailey, considered one of the best neurologists in the country, had never heard of it. When we live in a time when the rate of misdiagnoses has shown no improvement since the 1930s, the lesson here is that it’s important to always get a second opinion. While he may be an excellent doctor in many respects, Dr. Bailey is also, in some ways, a perfect example of what is wrong with medicine. I was just a number to him (and if he saw thirty-five patients a day, as he told me, that means I was one of a very large number). He is a by-product of a defective system that forces neurologists to spend five minutes with X number of patients a day to maintain their bottom line. It’s a bad system. Dr. Bailey is not the exception to the rule. He is the rule. Susannah Cahalan
Keep your best wishes, close to your heart and watch what happens
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Tony Deliso
For there is no friend like a sister In calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, To fetch one if one goes astray, To lift one if one totters down, To strengthen whilst one stands
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Christina Rossetti
Happiness is part of who we are. Joy is the feeling
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Tony Deliso
Do not act as if you had ten thousand years to throw away. Death stands at your elbow. Be good for something while you live and it is in your power.
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Marcus Aurelius
If you need help bark like a dog." - Gendry. "That's stupid. If I need help I'll shout help." - Arya
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George R.r. Martin
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