The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness

by Meghan O'Rourke

long COVID, she had a sinking feeling. “If this is something that happens to a lot of people, we’re in trouble,” she remembers thinking, “because most doctors don’t recognize dysautonomia as a real entity.”

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If there is any reason for hope in the growing epidemic of long COVID, it is that some academic medical centers are taking these patients seriously.

Jessica Cohen, a doctor patient who now lives with dysautonomia triggered by COVID, told me she was shocked to realize how little she’d been taught about dysautonomia in med school, given how common it really is. Getting sick has changed how she approaches caring for chronically ill patients.