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"Living With Chronic Illness"
Lifespan: Stories of Illness, Accident, and Recovery
English - December 10, 2018 08:00 - 49 minutes - 44.8 MB - ★★★★ - 24 ratingsScience Health & Fitness Medicine health stories healthcare disease treatment Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Chronic illness is, by definition, treatable but not curable. In this episode of Lifespan, Jennifer Grayson describes her struggle, beginning in high school, with unexplained symptoms. Emily Abel talks about her experience with post-cancer fatigue. Mary Ellen Croteau explains how a chronic respiratory condition impacted her work as an artist. Katy Kropf, a family physician, listens to their stories and discusses the difficulty of treating chronic illnesses and how patient/physician communication shapes treatment.