In a move that's made other high-school students everywhere feel really dumb, senior Jessica Terry used a microscope in class to diagnose her own disease, which had baffled doctors. Terry suffered from chronic stomach problems for eight years, but despite rigorous testing, pathologists were unable to find the cause. Then, while studying a slide of her own abdominal tissue in her Advanced Placement science class, Terry spotted an area of inflamed tissue, which she correctly diagnosed as Crohn's disease.
"It's weird I had to solve my own medical problem," Terry said. "There were just no answers anywhere ... I was always sick."
Terry is now in treatment and recently graduated from Eastside Catholic School, where she lettered in disease finding.
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Wednesday 24 June
By Dr. Mike
I'd like to know what kind of Dr.'s she is going to...Crohn's isn't an easy diagnosis to make (it's more diagnosed by exclusion in many cases) but any doctor worth their salt would pick up on an inflammatory GI disease.
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Tuesday 30 June
By kips
how did she get a sample of her own abdominal tissue?
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Monday 03 August
By Charles
Bravo. My doctors scare me.
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Thursday 03 September
By alicia
My first thought was: What dr couldn't Dx her correctly after 8 years??? My second thought was: What kind of dr is giving patient's samples of the ABDOMEN?
This is a very strange story!!! I am however happy that she now knows what the problem is and can get help or it. Good Job, we all hope you go to Med school.
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