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Teen Outsmarts Doctors In Science Class

Self-diagnosis impresses docs who've missed signs of her disease for years

By: EMILY FELDMAN

Updated 10:21 AM PDT, Mon, Jun 15, 2009

When doctors didn't give a Washington state high school student the answers she wanted, she took matters into her own hands.

Eighteen-year-old Jessica Terry, brought slides of her own intestinal tissue into her AP science class and correctly diagnosed herself with Crohn's disease.

"It's weird I had to solve my own medical problem," Terry told CNN affiliate KOMO. "There were just no answers anywhere ... I was always sick."................