A new take on an old favorite

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KarenNWendyn

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What we say to patients worried about ALS:
“ALS is unlikely given your exam and normal EMG. You don’t have ALS.”

What patients worried about ALS hear:
“ALS blah, blah, ALS, blah, blah, ALS...”
 

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True! Maybe positive reassurance is the only thing having a remote chance to trickle through the anxiety.

Normal, normal, normal, healthy, sleep, sleep, sleep.
 
Not saying anything against the poster but...

"I feel like this neurologist has provided information contradictory of what I have read online."

The highly educated, highly trained, world renown Neurologist... Dr. Google. :)
 
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