Alexandra Sifferlin

Finally,

And this is years of this.

Finally, she goes to a physician who does imaging and it turns out that she had been living with torn cartilage in her joint and she had to have surgery to fix a variety of hip injuries.

But up until that point, it was...

It was sort of like no one could fully understand the pain that she was in because nobody had sort of affirmed, yes, there's something wrong.

There's actually torn cartilage, which is very painful and can only be resolved through this surgical procedure.

But up until that point, it was like, oh, well, the physician is saying you just need to sleep with that pillow between your legs or whatever.

And it was this diagnosis that was like, no, I was actually suffering from something very painful for a very long time.

And this is and this is why.

You know, on the one hand, it's it makes sense.

Like she's a young she's younger than me.

She's in her early 30s.

And I think as a physician, you hear someone that young suffering from hip pain.

And it's like it's unlikely that it's something very serious.

And I do think that there are there's good reasons to not want to go overboard.

And the first time that you see a patient to say you need to get a CT scan, you need to get an MRI.

This stuff is very expensive.

And so you're sort of going down the list.

But I think the issue is when someone is coming to you again and again, or, you know, for instance...

you go to your usual doctor, you're not getting the care, you end up going somewhere else to try to get answers, but nobody is necessarily talking to each other.