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Digital advocacy for patients: The message must be accurate

An excerpt from In the Kingdom of the Sick: A Social History of Chronic Illness in America. For Jennifer Crystal, a thirty-three-year-old woman living with Lyme disease and two of its co-infections, life changed dramatically with one tiny tick bite…

An excerpt from In the Kingdom of the Sick: A Social History of Chronic Illness in America.

For Jennifer Crystal, a thirty-three-year-old woman living with Lyme disease and two of its co-infections, life changed dramatically with one tiny tick bite in the summer of 1997.  It was the summer before her sophomore year at Middlebury College, and Crystal was working at a summer camp in Maine.

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Digital advocacy for patients: The message must be accurate