Insightful Blog on the Satisfaction of Diagnosis

http://www.theferrett.com/ferrettworks/2015/04/i-hope-you-get-officially-sick/

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the minute you can condense your symptoms into a singular diagnosis, and have That Phrase on your sheet, it’s like getting upgraded to first class on the airline. Suddenly, doctors have to agree that you must be taken seriously – sure, you’re in the exact same amount of pain you were in before, but they can’t hand-wave it off. When they see That Phrase on your chart, they actually stop and read back to see what they were missing, because That Phrase makes you somebody important.

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This blogger also writes about writing, and posts pictures of amazing nail art:

http://www.theferrett.com/ferrettworks/ferretts-pretty-pretty-princess-nails-a-gallery/