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Chronic Illness and the Limits of How Medicine Thinks

2026-02-272025-12-20 by Laurel Fitzhugh

Chronic illness reveals the gap between how medicine is structured and how long-term, multi-system conditions actually behave. This essay examines that mismatch—and what expanding beyond reduction alone could make possible.

Categories Health Research & Explainers Tags reductionist medicine, autoimmune and chronic conditions, Health systems, Patient's experience, Chronic disease
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