![]() ![]() The underlying theme of her frustrating, sad, and maddening journey was not just the inability of medical practitioners to diagnose her Lyme disease and communicate with each other, but that doctors believed it to be in her mind simply because of her gender. The reality is that women like Khakpour with mysterious physical illnesses spend years in torment before confirmation of a diagnosis. Khakpour provides evidence that women suffer most from Lyme disease and other autoimmune illnesses like my own, multiple sclerosis. In Sick, Khakpour spotlights America’s diseased health care system, and in particular how it infects the most vulnerable: immigrants citizens of different races, nationalities and religions and women, specifically those living with a disabling chronic illness. Porochista Khakpour’s insightful and haunting narrative of her battle with incurable late-stage Lyme disease is more than a memoir of her own illness. ![]()
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