This text comes from the stern archive and first appeared on September 4, 2023.
The woman in her late sixties had seen a number of doctors over the past ten years. Nobody could help her. She sat in front of me skeptically: Would I, of all people, as a gastrointestinal specialist, be able to alleviate her suffering? She began to tell the story.
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