Tag Archives: Mystery

Having cracked the mindfulness mystery, I don’t want enlightening lockdown to end

The ant has been circling my foot for several minutes now. I have been watching it intently, as it runs over and back across the patio, in ever-decreasing circles. Its purpose is unfathomable, and its progress is slow, but that’s OK. I have time to watch it. I don’t have anything to do, or anywhere… Read More »

When the Illness Is a Mystery, Patients Turn to These Detectives

They are patients with diseases that mystify doctors, people whose symptoms are dismissed as psychosomatic, who have been given misdiagnosis upon misdiagnosis. They have confounded experts and have exhausted every hope save one. And so they wind up in the Undiagnosed Diseases Network, a federally funded project that now includes 12 clinical centers, including one… Read More »