3 in 4 Adults Have a Chronic Illness. So Who's 'Normal'?
76% of American adults have at least one chronic illness. 40% have two or more. The system was built for the other 24%. And it's still pretending that's fine.
This is a new episode of Diagnose This. Dr. Z is joined by Dr. Garrett Salpeter, neuromuscular specialist and founder of NeuFit, to talk about what it actually means when chronic illness becomes the majority experience — and why the medical model hasn't caught up.
When three in four people are dealing with something long-term, complicated, and poorly understood by the system supposed to help them — normal has moved. The average patient…
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