The Paradox of Modern Medicine
Testing has become so advanced that doctors now miss important elements of diagnosis.
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A growing number of clinicians are on an urgent quest to find treatments for a frighteningly pervasive problem. They’ve had surprising early success.
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As the chronically ill know, to be alive is to be “in uncertainty.” But American culture—and American medicine within it—largely strives to downplay this fact.
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But new insights are at last accumulating.
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