LongCOVID: 'On par' with heart disease, cancer, book says
, the authors lean into their animated roles: Medinger is a passionate patient-researcher and"guinea pig" in search of his own healing, and Altmann is a no-nonsense, data-driven scientist and"Professor Boring" ."The clinical burden [of long COVID] is somewhere on par with the whole of heart disease all over again, or the whole of oncology all over again, which are our biggest clinical bills concurrently," Altmann said.
Their relationship works, not just for publishing one of the first definitive guides to long COVID, but also as a model for how patients with lived experiences can lead the way in medicine — from giving the condition its name to driving the medical establishment for recognition, clinical research, and therapeutic answers.
In an interview, Medinger and Altmann discussed how their book can help both patients and clinicians, and the next steps needed to combat long COVID."I would say we put together an incredibly comprehensive couple of chapters on the hypotheses, big picture, what's causing long COVID. And then the nitty-gritty research for everything that we've found out that is going on. ...
I think it was also very important to include because that cautionary tale really applies to every single one of those treatments that people might be hearing about that hasn't been backed up by efficacy and safety studies." "I think Gez has been quite diplomatic. That chapter was, I think, a testament to the power of the book. And the biggest test of our marriage as 'the odd couple.
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