With your own health data and access becoming easier to revolutionary medical advancements, you should expect to see more stories like this. You are your own best health advocate, and your time is worth more than a single doctor's experience. You can dig longer and further than someone who needs to get you in and out in 15-30 minutes.
EDIT: A good example is my wife's endometriosis. There is no cure, just treatment. I'm working on a non-profit program to have genetic testing done for volunteers to isolate the parts of the genome responsible for endometriosis (statistical analysis; just like 23andme does) so that research can move to removing the responsible genome section using the recently discovered CRISPR protocol: http://phys.org/news/2015-03-crispr-technology-precise-genet...
"Man Saves Wife’s Sight by 3D Printing Her Tumor.
When his wife was misdiagnosed, Michael Balzer used 3D printing and imaging to get her well"
http://makezine.com/magazine/hands-on-health-care/
With your own health data and access becoming easier to revolutionary medical advancements, you should expect to see more stories like this. You are your own best health advocate, and your time is worth more than a single doctor's experience. You can dig longer and further than someone who needs to get you in and out in 15-30 minutes.
EDIT: A good example is my wife's endometriosis. There is no cure, just treatment. I'm working on a non-profit program to have genetic testing done for volunteers to isolate the parts of the genome responsible for endometriosis (statistical analysis; just like 23andme does) so that research can move to removing the responsible genome section using the recently discovered CRISPR protocol: http://phys.org/news/2015-03-crispr-technology-precise-genet...