“It’s about listening to you, and thinking that what you are saying is true. ‘I have 12 minutes with you and your labs say nothing is wrong so … you’re fine,’” she says, imagining the exchange between patient and doctor during an office visit. “This book brings together a lot of the things I’m interested in: health and society and how we define illness, and how doctors approach the process of diagnosis and healing,” Campbell Rice says. “The way she weaves her personal experiences with real research about autoimmune diseases and women’s health connects with a wide audience,” says Campbell Rice, who works with the NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing and is drawn to nonfiction books on subjects she wants to learn more about. In this critically acclaimed book that is part memoir and part expose, O’Rourke investigates the medical profession’s sometimes inadequate approach to chronic illness, autoimmune diseases, and other “invisible” ailments that affect millions of people.
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