• unconsciousvoidling@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Yea I have no idea what’s destroying my body either and I’m out in the wild. I think doctors only find shit when it’s stage 4 cancer. It has to be spelled out for them.

    • Doug Holland@lemmy.worldOP
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      1 year ago

      Well, that’s a whole 'nother topic, but I know the feeling and hope you’ll be feeling better.

      In my experience, there are no doctors like the docs on TV. Show up with symptoms that aren’t a quick match for something they’re familiar with, they’ll google it same as you already did, and if there’s still no obvious answer, you’re shit outta luck.

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    1 year ago

    It’s a really sad article. Thanks for sharing. I had no idea what the Marshall Project is.

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      1 year ago

      I love the Marshall Project. It’s journalism from the perspective of little people, real people, not the ordinary, detached, fair-and-balanced blather that reports Congress cut funding for school lunches, and there was a 6-car pileup on the interstate, and Elon Musk did something stupid, and here’s Cindy with the weather…