When you are diagnosed with a serious condition, it’s natural to spend days, weeks, months, and years researching every detail about symptoms, treatments, potential causes, cures, etc. In time, you become far more knowledgeable about the condition than your regular family doctor. That’s just the way it goes. Family doctors don’t have the time or resources to learn all there is to know about any one condition. So, that’s your job. And I can tell you that, particularly here in smaller cities and towns in Canada, even getting access to a specialist once a year is extremely difficult. You become an expert because you have to.
It’s interesting how knowing a lot more about your own condition can kinda ruin the entertainment of medical TV shows sometimes. For instance, when I was first diagnosed with MS, the TV show House was still airing. We had enjoyed it, though I knew it was not exactly accurate. But shortly after my diagnosis, I just couldn’t watch it anymore. It suddenly became sickeningly evident that the show itself was almost a smack in the face when it comes to actual medical treatment.
But I’m finding it goes even beyond just medical shows. Too many TV shows try to use MS as a “human interest story,” but fail miserably at raising any kind of genuine awareness. Continue reading “MS Misrepresentations on TV”
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