I was no stranger to back pain. In my early forties, I had three episodes of severe lumbar pain, lasting several weeks each. Lumbar is just the word doctors use for “low back.” An MRI showed ...

A student who put her leg pain down to “learning how to drive” was diagnosed with a rare cancer — after a 10cm tumor was discovered in her thigh. 20-year-old Immy had just started driving lessons in ...

Well, I’ve learned a few things about myself this summer … not pleasant things, either. It started May 9 when I didn’t lift my heel high enough, tripped on the door jamb and fell out the back door ...

You never forget the first time a doctor gives up: when they tell you that they don’t know what to do—they have no further tests to run, no treatments to offer—and that you’re on your own. It happened ...

Since childhood, I have suffered from severe stabbing headaches. Then in my first year of medical school, during anatomy lab, as we peeled back the scalp of our donated cadaver, I saw a nerve poking ...