“There is a black hole in medicine.”
In this episode of the React19 podcast, Dana Parish — author of Chronic: The Hidden Cause of the Autoimmune Pandemic and How to Be Healthy Again, podcaster, health advocate, and former singer-songwriter — shares her battle with chronic Lyme disease and draws striking parallels to the challenges faced by the COVID-19 vaccine-injured and long COVID communities.
Dana recounts her personal journey through misdiagnosis, systemic medical neglect, and her eventual recovery through integrative treatment. The conversation underscores the urgent need for better diagnostics, greater transparency, and truly patient-centered care, while exposing institutional failures and the suppression of patient experiences.
Dana urges listeners to advocate for themselves and calls for meaningful reform in how chronic, multi-system illnesses are understood and treated.
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Chronic: The Hidden Cause of the Autoimmune Pandemic and How to Get Healthy Again
Bay Area Lyme Podcast:
https://www.bayarealyme.org/blog/dr-jyotsna-shah-inside-igenexs-game-changing-lyme-test/
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