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Pooja Parikh

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One morning, the summer before her sophomore year of college, Pooja Parikh awoke and could not sit up due to immense pain and pressure on her sternum. What her doctors initially thought was a localized bacterial infection led to over a dozen courses of antibiotics, harmful misdiagnoses, and half a dozen surgeries before she was correctly diagnosed with hidradenitis suppurativa two years later. Read more.

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