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The Clinical Notes That Refused to Call Them Imaginary
A Royal Free physician documents a 1955 outbreak of muscle fatigue and neurological collapse - was the illness real or imagined?
The Clinical Notes That Refused to Call Them Imaginary
In this episode, we follow the clinical record kept by Andrew Melvin Ramsay as an unexplained illness swept the Royal Free Hospital in the summer of 1955. The episode traces his thirty-five year struggle to name, measure, and defend the suffering he witnessed - and asks why medicine turned away from what he recorded.
Person: Andrew Melvin Ramsay
Date: Summer 1955; description published 1986
Location: Royal Free…
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