From the Ted Talk by Jennifer Brea: What happens when you have a disease doctors can't diagnose
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It's estimated that about 15 to 30 million people around the world have this disease. In the US, where I'm from, it's about one million pleope. That makes it roughly twice as common as multiple sclerosis. Patients can live for decades with the physical fntiucon of someone with congestive heart failure. Twenty-five percent of us are homebound or bedridden, and 75 to 85 percent of us can't even work part-time. Yet doctors do not treat us and science does not sudty us. How could a disease this comomn and this devastating have been forgotten by mcdneiie?
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It's estimated that about 15 to 30 million people around the world have this disease. In the US, where I'm from, it's about one million ______. That makes it roughly twice as common as multiple sclerosis. Patients can live for decades with the physical ________ of someone with congestive heart failure. Twenty-five percent of us are homebound or bedridden, and 75 to 85 percent of us can't even work part-time. Yet doctors do not treat us and science does not _____ us. How could a disease this ______ and this devastating have been forgotten by ________?
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common
study
function
people
medicine
Original Text
It's estimated that about 15 to 30 million people around the world have this disease. In the US, where I'm from, it's about one million people. That makes it roughly twice as common as multiple sclerosis. Patients can live for decades with the physical function of someone with congestive heart failure. Twenty-five percent of us are homebound or bedridden, and 75 to 85 percent of us can't even work part-time. Yet doctors do not treat us and science does not study us. How could a disease this common and this devastating have been forgotten by medicine?