High School Student Diagnoses Self in Science Class
Thursday June 18, 2009
Talk about a science project! This is a really great story about a teen being successful. Jessica Terry was having some medical problems - abdominal pain - that went undiagnosed for quite a while. So she took matters in her own hands. The article says, "In her Advanced Placement high school science class, she was looking under the microscope at slides of her own intestinal tissue -- slides her pathologist had said were completely normal -- and spotted an area of inflamed tissue called a granuloma, a clear indication that she had Crohn's disease." What a resourceful young woman and kudos to high schools that promote advanced placement science.
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That is awesome and a perfect example why you should be in charge of your health and never take the Doctor’s word if you think something doesn’t feel right. Too many times patients think Doctor’s are all knowing and they are humans as well. Just because you have the title MD doesn’t mean your good at what you do.