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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SarahTee" data-source="post: 2254212" data-attributes="member: 518070">Sorry, I wasn't clear. What I meant was, when you get seriously ill with anything, ill enough to get admitted to hospital, you get your vitals monitored 24/7, you are tested for everything likely, and seen by specialists within hours or days. It is all done quickly and they are all at your bedside looking at the results and comparing notes, with coordination by your "ward doctor".When you have a non-lifethreatening illness, you seem to have to coordinate it all yourself, and spend months or years trying to get specialist appointments, referrals, tests, etc. It is all so slow and frustrating. I just wish I could get an endocrinologist, dysautonomia specialist, dietitian, phlebotomist and a couple of nurses, and lock us all in a hospital room (with adjoining path lab) until they have tested me every which way and thrashed it out!</blockquote>

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