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		smeej on Jan 27, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Nobody Has My Condition but Me It sounds like the obviously swollen hand was a big symptom, at least for the doctor who immediately said, "That's not rheumatoid arthritis." To use the zebra analogy, it sounded like that was the part where the doctor said, "I don't know wtf this is, but it's not a horse."

FollowingTheDao on Jan 27, 2023 [–]

Exactly. Doctors always see horses. Whenever they see a zebra they just tell you that it is a horse that you painted with stripes in your imagination.

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