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In which Deborah Grady makes my point better than I can

Posted on September 30, 2008

Pain, a Limp and Winkle Picker s Disease Doctors who treat themselves may have fools for patients, but they look like geniuses compared with a reporter who tried to diagnose herself via the Internet.It seemed so simple. I Googled foot pain, and up came two sites with neat little pictures of feet, arrows pointing to various parts and instructions to click where it hurts. I clicked and, voila! both sites said my pain on the top and side of the foot, around the big toe was probably from a bunion or gout.Gout? Hmmph. What came to mind was Henry VIII, the movie version, huge...

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feet , foot , gout