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What happens when you have a disease doctors can't diagnose - TED Talk (2016)
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<embedvideo service="youtube" dimensions="400" alignment="right" container="frame" description= "In this poignant talk, Brea describes the obstacles she's encountered in seeking treatment for her condition, whose root causes and physical effects we don't fully understand, as well as her mission to document through film the lives of patients that medicine struggles to treat. By TED">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fb3yp4uJhq0</embedvideo> '''What happens when you have a disease doctors can't diagnose - TED Talk (2016)''' is about [[Jennifer Brea]]'s experience of her disease onset, a psychiatric misdiagnosis of conversion disorder, becoming bedbound and wheelchair bound due to a walk home from her neurologist's office, her correct diagnosis of [[Myalgic Encephalomyelitis]], and her pursuit for accurate knowledge about her disease. ==Summary== "Five years ago, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TED_(conference)#TED_Fellows TED Fellow] Jennifer Brea became progressively ill with myalgic encephalomyelitis, commonly known as [[chronic fatigue syndrome]], a debilitating illness that severely impairs normal activities and on bad days makes even the rustling of bed sheets unbearable. In this poignant talk, Brea describes the obstacles she's encountered in seeking treatment for her condition, whose root causes and physical effects we don't fully understand, as well as her mission to document through film the lives of patients that medicine struggles to treat."<ref>[https://www.ted.com/talks/jen_brea_what_happens_when_you_have_a_disease_doctors_can_t_diagnose What happens when you have a disease doctors can't diagnose - TED Talk (2016) by Jennifer Brea]</ref> ==Viewing options== *[https://www.ted.com/talks/jen_brea_what_happens_when_you_have_a_disease_doctors_can_t_diagnose TED site] *[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fb3yp4uJhq0 Youtube] ==See also== *[[Unrest]] (2017) Documentary by Jennifer Brea ==References== {{Reflist}} [[Category: TED talks]]
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