Friday, June 19, 2009

Heal Thyself, Physician!

Somebody needs to give Jessica Terry an award. Free medical care would do nicely. This girl has suffered for years from very painful stomach cramps that could often bring her to her knees, and doctor after doctor failed to come up with a prognosis.

Then, she figured it out. In her high school science class! She slid a sample of her own intestinal tissue (which a pathologist had assured her contained no irregularities) under a microscope, "and spotted an area of inflamed tissue called a granuloma, a clear indication that she had Crohn's disease."

This is evolution at its absolute finest.

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