Zoe Kazan as Emily and Kumail Nanjiani as himself in The Big SickFLICKR, BAGOGAMESReaders take note: movie spoilers ahead
In the movie The Big Sick, based on real events that happened to its two Academy Award-nominated scriptwriters, the character Emily falls gravely ill and is put into a medically induced coma as doctors race to treat what they believe is an antibiotic-resistant infection. When they finally diagnose her with a rare autoimmune condition called adult-onset Still’s disease, treating the symptoms seems trivial, and Emily is soon out of the coma and back on her feet.
It turns out that treating Still’s in real life isn’t always so simple. Some patients’ symptoms aren’t immediately resolved by first-line treatments, and many experience periodic flare-ups after the initial bout of symptoms. But a Swiss trial reported last month (February 22) in the Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases ...
