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Posted
Thursday, July 09, 2009 12:17 PM
| By
Emily Yoffe
How sad that Summer Stiers,
the young woman suffering from an as-yet uncategorized illness who was
profiled so heart-breakingly by Robin Marantz Henig in the New York Times Magazine,
has died. At least she ended up at the National Institutes of Health
where the doctors tried—unsuccessfully—to puzzle out the reason for her
many medical maladies.
One of my daughter's favorite shows is Mystery Diagnosis, which presents the story of someone with strange symptoms who goes for years without being able to get a diagnosis ... (Read more at DoubleX.com.)
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