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The Medical Detectives

Emily's Story: Diagnosed by a Podcast

The Medical Detectives

Soft Skills Media

Society & Culture, True Crime

3.8937 Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Medical Detectives, Emily shares her staggering 17-year diagnostic odyssey, starting at age 17 with a seemingly mild ankle sprain that never fully resolved, and winding through years of dismissals, generic compression socks, and contradictory specialist visits. Through her story, we uncover the compounding harm of miscommunication, underdiagnosis, and the dismissal of patients. But everything changes when Emily hears an episode of this very podcast, which sparks a realization that ultimately leads her to discover that she actually was diagnosed five years ago, it's just that nobody took the time to tell her.

Have a medical journey to share? Email us at stories@themedicaldetectivespodcast.com.

***The information provided on the medical detectives is for informational and entertainment purposes only and should not be considered medical advice. While we may feature licensed medical professionals, including doctors, we are not your personal doctors and no doctor patient relationship is established by listening to this podcast or interacting with our content.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

All right.

0:13.2

Which makes my producer very nervous, very nervous.

0:18.7

But I have a prediction, okay?

0:22.7

And I wanted to make the prediction before we brought the guest on.

0:27.2

Okay.

0:27.5

And my prediction is that this episode will be like the pinnacle of our podcasting career what yes yes i think we are we are reaching like

0:43.9

the zenith well now i need to do a good job can't phone a day this week i did all all of this

0:53.2

just to to wet your, but I cannot wait

0:57.7

to start this conversation because I can't wait for us to get to the end. Okay. Well, I'm excited.

1:04.3

Let's get into this. Let's do it.

1:10.3

Hi, Emily. Welcome to the medical detectives. Thank you for joining us. Thank you for having me.

1:17.1

Well, Emily, we like to start the show usually by talking about you when you're a bit younger and summer vacation right now for a lot of kids.

1:25.7

So what would you have been doing on summer vacation as a kid?

1:30.4

I spent a lot of time outside as a kid. So that pretty much remains the same up until I'm in high

1:38.9

school. I have my first ever job. And I work at a local library library and I very distinctly remember shelving some

1:48.2

books in the children's unit so all the shelves are very low because children are not very tall

1:53.0

typically and I'm kind of kneeling on the floor and when I go to stand up I press my left

2:00.6

ankle down into the floor kind of awkwardly

2:05.2

and it does that little pole where you can tell like you probably just gave yourself a very

2:09.7

mild sprain kind of thing. And I say mild sprain very specifically because I don't remember ever mentioning it to anybody. Like, it doesn't even hurt

2:20.1

after, like, the first day kind of thing. It does swell up a little bit. The pain goes away,

2:26.5

but the swelling never does. Did you have bruising? No, not really. Just very mild spray.

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