Teen diagnoses her own disease in science class [View All]

[Mari333]

Her doctors, no matter how hard they tried, couldn't figure out the cause of Jessica's abdominal distress.

Then one day in January, Terry, 18, figured it out on her own.

In her Advanced Placement high school science class, she was looking under the microscope at slides of her own intestinal tissue -- slides her pathologist had said were completely normal -- and spotted an area of inflamed tissue called a granuloma, a clear indication that she had Crohn's disease








http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/06/11/teen.self.diagnosis/index.html

sometimes you just have to do the job the doctors dont do