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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They became more predictable.
They seemed to respond more directly to the drugs I was taking.
And at that point, almost two years in, was when I actually started to very
Slowly get better.
Yeah.
He was quite a character.
And the reality is that, as you would expect,
In order to become the kind of doctor who exists in this strange twilight world where you're operating somewhat outside official consensus, sometimes getting in trouble with state medical boards and so on, putting yourself at a sort of distinctive kind of risk for lawsuits, I'm sure, you have to be a certain kind of character or personality.
And often these doctors are people who have had.
Had personal experiences themselves.
And this was true again and again for people I would meet.
But that also means that you have a field that's populated with eccentric characters, which to an outsider, anyone inclined to be skeptical of this kind of treatment.
It just sort of ratifies the skepticism.
Yeah, it's this incredibly curious thing because Connecticut is one of the wealthiest states in the country, and the parts of it that are most in contact with nature, the suburbs and rural areas, are often the wealthiest parts.
And you would sort of expect that if there was a disease, this sort of hidden disease shadowing a community of privilege, it would get outsized publicity and
talking about it all the time, and maybe it would get unfair levels of medical attention relative to other problems.
But instead it's more like this dark secret, and that reflects this medical divide where to believe in chronic Lyme disease, to believe in its reality, is to put yourself sort of outside the consensus in some way.
But once you're there and once you're sick and once you talk to people about your sickness, it's exactly a version of what the reaction from your friend was like, where it's this thing where everyone takes it for granted that someone in their social circle has lost a year or two of their life to this.
Most of the chronic cases do eventually get better, as I have gotten
a lot better.
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