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Podcast: New Books in Medicine
Episode: Lisa Doggett, "Up the Down Escalator: Medicine, Motherhood, and Multiple Sclerosis" (Health Communications, 2023)
Description: Lisa Doggett, MD, MPH is a family and lifestyle medicine physician and an award-winning author based in Austin, Texas. In 2009, she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. At that time, her daughters were 2 and 4 years old, and she was the director of a clinic for people without private health insurance.Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic disease of the central nervous system (brain and spinal cord) that often affects young adults. It can manifest with many different symptoms, and its impact varies from very mild to very severe. While there's no cure yet, medications to manage the disease...