A doctor shared how he struggled to diagnose his family member’s illness despite extensive tests. His maid identified the disease in 10 seconds!
The Liver Doc | Image: X
Thiruvananthapuram: Dr Cyriac Abby Philips, a Kerala-based hepatologist known as The Liver Doc on X, shared how his maid diagnosed his family member’s disease in just 10 seconds while the doctor struggled to identify the illness.
Dr Philip took to X to share that he was struggling to diagnose his adulty family member’s illness who experienced “episodes of relentless low grade fever with chills and crippling fatigue and arthritis and a weird rash.”
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Dr Philip was frustrated as he had “tested everything from viral hepatitis to covid-19 to Influenza and Dengue and Ebstein Barr Virus and nothing came back positive.”
While the doctor was struggling with the diagnosis, his maid told him that she had seen the rash. “I kept looking through tables in Harrisons and then my elderly maid comes in and tells me she has seen this rash in her grand children and it’s called ‘Anjaampani’ in local language (5th Disease) and I don’t have to worry and got checked for Parvovirus B19 and it came positive,” Dr Philip wrote.
He further said, “17 years of medical school and a Harrisons on my lap and my elderly maid got it in like 10 seconds. Everyone has something to teach. Just listen.”
The tweet has gone viral on on the microblogging platform, garnering more than 4.18 lakh views. Here’s what netizens said:
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