TLDR: It was Schnitzler Syndrome, a rare autoimmune disease.
Clickbait titles and suspense-novel narrative structures in articles like this really annoy me for some reason. Just get to the point.
Clickbait titles and suspense-novel narrative structures in articles like this really annoy me for some reason. Just get to the point.
You are right, the suspense approach, is terrible, I had the impression that the protagonist of the story was the Dr. May, and then it comes out as being only another doctor that remained clueless making every kind of unneeded tests for seven months until - by sheer luck - a curious trainee managed to find the right clue, reportedly by digging into early medical records.
I may add that it looks to me somehow "disturbing" the Senseless Capitalized Initials of the title and paragraphs.
Info on Schnitzler Syndrome: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schnitzler_syndrome
Think something like GQ, Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone.
It's not meant to be a news article, it's a story.
Whether this particular submission meets the criteria for a HN discussion could be debated, although it does seem to have generated at least some useful comments.