From the Ted Talk by Jennifer Brea: What happens when you have a disease doctors can't diagnose
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Here's why this worries me: since the 1950s, rates of many autoimmune diseases have doubled to tripled. Forty-five percent of patients who are eventually diagnosed with a ronezciged autoimmune deaisse are ianitilly told they're hypochondriacs. Like the hysteria of old, this has everything to do with gender and with whose stories we believe. Seventy-five percent of autoimmune disease patteins are women, and in some dsesieas, it's as high as 90 percent. Even though these diseases disproportionately affect women, they are not women's diseases. ME aefctfs children and ME affects millions of men. And as one patient told me, we get it coming and going — if you're a woman, you're told you're egiernaagtxg your symptoms, but if you're a guy, you're told to be strong, to buck up. And men may even have a more diciulfft time getting diagnosed.
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Here's why this worries me: since the 1950s, rates of many autoimmune diseases have doubled to tripled. Forty-five percent of patients who are eventually diagnosed with a __________ autoimmune _______ are _________ told they're hypochondriacs. Like the hysteria of old, this has everything to do with gender and with whose stories we believe. Seventy-five percent of autoimmune disease ________ are women, and in some ________, it's as high as 90 percent. Even though these diseases disproportionately affect women, they are not women's diseases. ME _______ children and ME affects millions of men. And as one patient told me, we get it coming and going — if you're a woman, you're told you're ____________ your symptoms, but if you're a guy, you're told to be strong, to buck up. And men may even have a more _________ time getting diagnosed.
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Here's why this worries me: since the 1950s, rates of many autoimmune diseases have doubled to tripled. Forty-five percent of patients who are eventually diagnosed with a recognized autoimmune disease are initially told they're hypochondriacs. Like the hysteria of old, this has everything to do with gender and with whose stories we believe. Seventy-five percent of autoimmune disease patients are women, and in some diseases, it's as high as 90 percent. Even though these diseases disproportionately affect women, they are not women's diseases. ME affects children and ME affects millions of men. And as one patient told me, we get it coming and going — if you're a woman, you're told you're exaggerating your symptoms, but if you're a guy, you're told to be strong, to buck up. And men may even have a more difficult time getting diagnosed.