Deadly Diagnosis
The doctors finally had an answer for Tisha's family. Tisha was suffering from anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis. No one in the family had ever heard of that, and it was difficult to grasp what it even was...
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Mother Refuses To Let Doctors Give Up on her Daughter's Medical Mystery
The More You Know
- Tic Tac mints are named after the sound their container makes.
- A U.S. park ranger named Roy C. Sullivan held the record for being struck by lightning the most times, having been struck — and surviving — seven times between 1942 and 1977.
- You can major in wine at Cornell University.
- The first American woman to go to medical school was admitted as a joke. Geneva Medical School thought it was joke when Elizabeth Blackwell applied to attend 1847. She graduated in 1849, started her own practice, and opened an infirmary for the poor.