Ross Douthat
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328 appearances
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first heard Mar 2022
last heard Mar 2022
Ross Douthat’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And the cardiologist is going to test your heart and make sure your heart is functioning.
But when you say, Well, Doc, I have pain in my chest today, but yesterday I had a headache, they're going to send you to a neurologist who's going to have their own field-specific response.
And I don't have a medical benefit.
my background, but I'm a journalist, I'm a member of the professional classes.
I feel like I could understand how I would appear to those doctors if I just came in and acted hysterical and desperate.
So I tried not to.
Well, so there was a phase in this period of mystery when I read a long essay in New York magazine that was by someone who had had undiagnosed Lyme disease for many years, who was himself, I believe, a doctor, and it had ended up progressing so disastrously that he had to get a heart transplant.
And his description of his illness sounded at least somewhat like what I was going through.
And I
Was from Connecticut, so I had some background knowledge about Lyme disease, not not actually that much, as it turned out, but some.
And so that opened this brief period of a few weeks where I sort of decided, well, that was a plausible diagnosis.
And even though my test for Lyme wasn't positive, you could read and see that Lyme disease testing is not a perfect art by any means, and people often test negative.
Early in the illness.
And so I convinced one of the doctors I was seeing to give me a trial of doxycycline, which is the main antibiotic for treating Lyme.
And I took it.
And pretty quickly felt worse culminating in one of these hospital visits.
And at that point I sort of discarded the Lyme diagnosis and said, all right, it's time to try a new theory.
It was only when we actually moved to Connecticut and we started seeing doctors who treat a lot of patients with Lyme disease that it moved from being speculative to becoming the primary theory of what was going on.
On.
So basically, everybody agrees on the basics of Lyme disease.
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