Judy Golz is a retired registered nurse — she’s also a neuroendocrine cancer survivor. Because she had experience working in medicine — she realized that something was wrong once she started noticing symptoms, but she didn’t know what. “Being a nurse is a double-edged sword,” Judy says, “because I knew something was wrong with me, but I didn’t have the knowledge as to exactly what it was. And when you go to these different doctors and you’re trying to explain, I think sometimes they actually think you’re being a hypochondriac. Sometimes in the medical community, we can over-diagnose ourselves.”
Judy says that at the time she was diagnosed, she didn’t have the necessary resources to really identify her symptoms and articulate them properly during her doctor visits. But today — there’s a lot more out there. “If I had these symptoms today, because of all the information out there, I think I would have been able to diagnose myself.”
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