Diagnosing The Problem
Dad and I once paid $110 to have the repair guy plug in our refrigerator after we thought the fuse box had blown leaving the fridge dark and warm. “The two of you are like the blind leading the blind,” mom said when she came home later that day. “I leave you alone for 2 hours!” Diagnostics is not everyone’s forte. George Costanza once asked his Seinfeld crew to diagnose a strange discoloring on his lip. “I’d get that checked out,” Kramer said skittishly, while George wondered if it could be cancer but his doctor said, “well I don’t know what it is.” Diagnosing things is particularly difficult these days for parents, schools, doctors and many others who often lack a true picture of a student’s health to figure out if something is anxiety, pain an auto-immune disease, cancer or even much ado about nothing. Here in this Eye on Healthcare report, check out results of our poll, a sit down with a family about their teenager’s journey, a day in the life of a school therapist and an example of a solution that helped solve the problem for one teen.