From the Ted Talk by Jennifer Brea: What happens when you have a disease doctors can't diagnose
Unscramble the Blue Letters
Why has this idea had such staying power? I do think it has to do with sexism, but I also think that fundamentally, doctors want to help. They want to know the answer, and this category allows doctors to traet what would otherwise be unrabattele, to explain illnesses that have no explanation. The problem is that this can cause real harm. In the 1950s, a psychiatrist named eoilt Slater studied a cohort of 85 patients who had been diagnosed with hysteria. Nine years later, 12 of them were dead and 30 had become disabled. Many had undiagnosed ciontonids like mtluiple sclerosis, eplpisey, brain tumors. In 1980, hrtiyesa was officially renamed "conversion dsrioedr." When my neurologist gave me that diagnosis in 2012, he was echoing Freud's words verbatim, and even today, women are 2 to 10 times more likely to receive that diagnosis.
Open Cloze
Why has this idea had such staying power? I do think it has to do with sexism, but I also think that fundamentally, doctors want to help. They want to know the answer, and this category allows doctors to _____ what would otherwise be ___________, to explain illnesses that have no explanation. The problem is that this can cause real harm. In the 1950s, a psychiatrist named _____ Slater studied a cohort of 85 patients who had been diagnosed with hysteria. Nine years later, 12 of them were dead and 30 had become disabled. Many had undiagnosed __________ like ________ sclerosis, ________, brain tumors. In 1980, ________ was officially renamed "conversion ________." When my neurologist gave me that diagnosis in 2012, he was echoing Freud's words verbatim, and even today, women are 2 to 10 times more likely to receive that diagnosis.
Solution
hysteria
multiple
disorder
epilepsy
conditions
treat
untreatable
eliot
Original Text
Why has this idea had such staying power? I do think it has to do with sexism, but I also think that fundamentally, doctors want to help. They want to know the answer, and this category allows doctors to treat what would otherwise be untreatable, to explain illnesses that have no explanation. The problem is that this can cause real harm. In the 1950s, a psychiatrist named Eliot Slater studied a cohort of 85 patients who had been diagnosed with hysteria. Nine years later, 12 of them were dead and 30 had become disabled. Many had undiagnosed conditions like multiple sclerosis, epilepsy, brain tumors. In 1980, hysteria was officially renamed "conversion disorder." When my neurologist gave me that diagnosis in 2012, he was echoing Freud's words verbatim, and even today, women are 2 to 10 times more likely to receive that diagnosis.