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Dr. Bailey is a highly regarded neurologist practicing in New York City. Susannah describes him as grandfatherly and kind, and she wants to assure him that everything is fine the first time she sees him for the numbness in her left side. Though his exam yields normal results, after Susannah's parents insist, he refers Susannah to the New York University hospital. When Susannah contacts Dr. Bailey after recovering from her illness, she discovers that Dr. Bailey had never heard of anti-NMDA receptor autoimmune encephalitis, despite his prestige in the medical world. However, Susannah learns several years later that Dr. Bailey referred a patient who exhibited similar symptoms as Susannah to Dr. Najjar, though he didn't admit to the patient's parents that he'd misdiagnosed Susannah.
Dr. Bailey Quotes in Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
The Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness quotes below are all either spoken by Dr. Bailey or refer to Dr. Bailey. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 14
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"Her EEG was completely normal," Bailey protested, looking through my file. "MRI normal, exam normal, blood work normal. It's all normal."
"Well, she's not normal," my mom snapped as I sat there, quiet and polite with my hands folded in my lap. She and Allen had made a pact that they would not leave Dr. Bailey's office without getting me admitted to a hospital.
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Chapter 47
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While he may be an excellent doctor in many respects, Dr. Bailey is also, in some ways, a perfect example of what is wrong with medicine. I was just a number to him... He is a by-product of a defective system that forces neurologists to spend five minutes with X number of patients a day to maintain their bottom line. It's a bad system.
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Dr. Bailey Quotes in Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
The Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness quotes below are all either spoken by Dr. Bailey or refer to Dr. Bailey. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 14
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"Her EEG was completely normal," Bailey protested, looking through my file. "MRI normal, exam normal, blood work normal. It's all normal."
"Well, she's not normal," my mom snapped as I sat there, quiet and polite with my hands folded in my lap. She and Allen had made a pact that they would not leave Dr. Bailey's office without getting me admitted to a hospital.
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Chapter 47
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While he may be an excellent doctor in many respects, Dr. Bailey is also, in some ways, a perfect example of what is wrong with medicine. I was just a number to him... He is a by-product of a defective system that forces neurologists to spend five minutes with X number of patients a day to maintain their bottom line. It's a bad system.
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