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Living With an Autoimmune Disease As a Nurse: Amy's Journey With Sarcoidosis


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It's a chronic disease of unknown cause characterized by the enlargement of lymph nodes in many parts of the body and the widespread appearance of granulomas. If you're a nurse you're familiar with it but likely not enough to really explain it to your patient. And that's why we're talking about it now, April is Sarcoidosis awareness month.

In this episode Nurse Alice speaks with Amy Cobb, a long-time FNP, and wellness advocate working in primary care who is also a patient of chronic medical conditions not well understood, including Sarcoidosis and Psoriasis. Amy shares her journey as an NP, her frustrations as a patient, and discusses how being a patient has impacted her practice and how she deals with patients.

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