Michelle's Story: The Patient Becomes the Medical Detective
The Medical Detectives
Soft Skills Media
3.8 • 937 Ratings
🗓️ 1 October 2025
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
When a healthy, outdoorsy vegan develops burning foot pain after a bout of COVID-19, months of sleepless nights, dead-end appointments, and dismissive doctors follow, until Michelle turns herself into a one-woman research lab. In this episode, Anna and Erin unpack her rare diagnosis and how DIY experiments led to answers.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, Anna. |
| 0:06.5 | Hello, Erin. |
| 0:07.3 | How are you doing today? |
| 0:09.0 | I'm great. |
| 0:10.3 | You know, this is probably, I think, the first time we have a guest where I had never heard of the disease before. |
| 0:20.5 | I know. That was pretty mind-boggling to me because to me you are all knowing, you |
| 0:23.9 | are like the medical deity that comes here and just like sits down and be like, ah, I know this. |
| 0:29.2 | So we were kind of on the same page today, which was fun for a change. |
| 0:33.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:34.0 | I mean, it's interesting in that what we find out is that this disease is kind of like one side of a coin that I do know that other side of the coin very well. |
| 0:44.4 | But this particular manifestation was something that I had never heard of. |
| 0:49.8 | And it relates to, I think, probably the most common theme on our show, which is post-COVID-related |
| 0:59.5 | illnesses. |
| 1:01.6 | Yes. |
| 1:02.2 | And I think what's really interesting about this episode specifically is it brings to light that |
| 1:07.9 | we just don't understand COVID that well. |
| 1:11.2 | And I think there's a lot more to be discovered. |
| 1:14.2 | And with that, let's just jump right in. |
| 1:16.6 | Let's do it. |
| 1:20.0 | Hi, Michelle. |
| 1:20.9 | Welcome to the medical detectives. |
| 1:22.5 | Thank you so much for joining us. |
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