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April Whalley's avatar

In my own experience of being diagnosed with 'life long' illness, once I had found a way through and out the other side, the diagnosis was then removed as a 'mistake'. Thus, they invalidated my experience, my self-care and my journey. It seemed to me that once I was no longer a viable customer for their drug pushing that they were no longer interested. Being able to pass on my route to wellness to other patients did not seem to be anything that they were interested in.

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You are so accurate in your assessment of how doctors give diagnoses. Two decades ago, a doctor diagnosed my hearing loss with the comment "there's nothing that can be done for it". I was in despair, but fortunately the next day was seeing my cousin the audiologist, who said, "you can hear with hearing aids" - which the doctor had not even mentioned as an option to help me hear. The doctor only cared about what he could or could not do, not what would help me.

That stuck with me, too!

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