Prescription to a revolution or how to create a Patient-Led healthcare

12 December 2019 Prescription to a revolution or how to create a Patient-Led healthcare I've always wanted to be a Doctor, I didn't know exactly wh

12 December 2019 Prescription to a revolution or how to create a Patient-Led healthcare I've always wanted to be a Doctor, I didn't know exactly what it entails, but I really wanted to help people, save them and give them hope.

I joined the army as a combat soldier, aiming to be an army medic, but soon Everything changed; after an injury, I sustained during training, I started to experience strange symptoms that got worse until one day, I could not function anymore, I was honorably discharged to my own faith, but not long after, I finally collapsed...

My hospitalization felt helpless, lying on a corridor in a busy internal ward where the staff gave in under the enormous burden. I realized what it is like to be a patient.

I didn't make this dream come true, and I didn't become a Doctor, But I had the privilege of learning what it is like to be a patient, and that experience changed my life.

I spent the next three years running around between dozens of doctors who told me terrible stuff and even accused me of faking my illness but never gave me hope. I have listened to dozens of doctors, but very few have listened to my story. It all led to the moment a very senior Doctor told my parents while ignoring my presence in the room That they would buy me a nice mattress and connect my room to a cable TV because I was never going to work a day in my life, marry a woman or go to university.

That night after coming home, I had to decide. Decide whether I am healing myself, Or killing myself.

I didn't have much to live for; I was bedridden, with zero quality of life and no hope of getting better. I still didn't have a diagnosis or a treatment,

I chose life.

I acquired any medical school material I could get my hands on and started to study medicine from my bed. It took me almost 2 years, but I had my diagnosis, and after many fights, this diagnosis was confirmed by the medical establishment.

My illness, Dysautonomia and specifically POTS syndrome, Could be diagnosed