Deena Gibbons has had a long interest in immunology, in particular the development and function of the immune system in human infants, how this impacts lifelong immunity and subsequently the development of different autoimmune diseases .
Time to move on from ‘doctor knows best’, say experts, as study finds clinicians rank patient views as least important in diagnosis
Experts today call for more value to be given to patients’ ‘lived experiences’ as a study of over 1,000 patients and clinicians found multiple examples of patient reports being under-valued.
The research, led by a team at the University of Cambridge and Kings’ College London, found that clinicians ranked patient self-assessments as least important in diagnostic decisions, and said that patients both over- and under-played their symptoms more often than patients reported doing so.
Study finds ‘startling’ levels of hidden mental health symptoms among autoimmune disease patients
The role of the gut in the development of the immune system and how this is defective in SLE
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