People who find themselves very sick could be diminished to their diagnoses by others
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Being Sick
Neil Vickers and Derek Bolton (Reaktion Books)
In 1979, when endocrinologist David Rabin was recognized with an incurable neurodegenerative situation, he understood solely too nicely the ache forward. What he didn’t anticipate was the response from his medical colleagues at Vanderbilt College College of Drugs in Tennessee, who have been deeply discomforted by his prognosis to the purpose they began avoiding him. On one event, Rabin fell and a passing colleague pretended to not see him sprawled on the bottom as they walked…
