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Another rare-disease-patient-misdiagnosed-as-psychiatric story.
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Another rare-disease-patient-misdiagnosed-as-psychiatric story.
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The medical team encircled Mackenzie Hild’s bed, their somber expressions reflecting the gravity of the news they were about to impart to the Harvard sophomore and her mother, newly arrived from California.
“We’ve done all these tests, and they’re all normal,” Hild recalls one doctor at the renowned Boston hospital telling them. To treat Hild’s life-threatening weight loss, which the 19-year-old claimed was the result of searing abdominal pain triggered by eating, doctors were sending her to an inpatient center specializing in eating disorders.
Hild, who at 5-foot-3 then weighed 75 pounds, remembers weeping as she tried to explain that she didn’t have anorexia. She desperately wanted to eat, she insisted, but couldn’t.
“I didn’t know how to convince them this is not in my head,” recalled Hild of the September 2010 encounter. “And the more I tried to convince them, the crazier I sounded.” ...