When Bibi Philippou complained to her family doctor two years ago about hemorrhoids and rectal bleeding, the doctor scheduled a colonoscopy.
“The test showed a few noncancerous polyps, but nothing else,” says Bibi, a real estate property manager from Las Cruces, New Mexico. “I got the ‘all clear.’”
Bibi visited her doctor two more times in the next six months before finally consulting a colorectal specialist who diagnosed...
When Trena Robertson’s left hip began aching, she visited an orthopedic specialist in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, her hometown.
Ever since Robin Birthisel was diagnosed with a slow-growing type of multiple myeloma 10 years ago, she’s experienced unpleasant side effects...