People who find themselves very sick might be diminished to their diagnoses by others
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Being Unwell
Neil Vickers and Derek Bolton (Reaktion Books)
In 1979, when endocrinologist David Rabin was recognized with an incurable neurodegenerative situation, he understood solely too properly the ache forward. What he didn’t anticipate was the response from his medical colleagues at Vanderbilt College Faculty of Drugs in Tennessee, who had been deeply discomforted by his analysis to the purpose they began avoiding him. On one event, Rabin fell and a passing colleague pretended to not see him sprawled on the bottom as they walked…
