Why "Nothing Is Wrong" Is a Dangerous Medical Lie
If your house smelled like smoke, you wouldn't wait for fire before doing something about it. So why does medicine wait for damage?
This is a new episode of Diagnose This. Dr. Z is joined by Destiny Davis, LPC, CRC — a mental health therapist in Atlanta who specializes in chronic pain and complex medical conditions — to talk about what happens to people in the gap between something is wrong and the system finally believes them.
Destiny watched her mother get told for years that it was in her head, that she just needed to lose weight, that she was malingering. When Destiny started experiencing…
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