Krankheit: Marcus Dörings Sicht

[Noch auf English, Übersetzung folgt bald.]

I would like to point out a few things before telling you more about my disease. You may find out that I do have a strange attitude towards being ill and being healthy:

In fact, I very much doubt that a mortal person can ever be healthy. This is heavily related to my understanding of disease as a vis morbi.

Vis (Lat. 1. power; 2. meaning)
Morbi, genitive of Morbus (Lat. disease)

Vis morbi - the power and meaning of disease - is my paraphrase for the idea that symptoms are of highest value to a human being and thus positive. Correctly understood can they be a guide and reveal a pathway to healing.
In my opinion a good doctor should focus - while treating a disease - more on understanding symptoms than on suppressing symptoms.

On the following page you will find a listing of my symptoms that were summarized by doctors as the diagnosis: auto-immune disease of rheumatic origin. Noone of these doctors has ever been able to find a better label for my vita.
I would like to emphasize that I do not think that a more distinct name could solve anything. It could only help by the fact that a clearer view of the disease would probably mean more medical research results. And this would thus mean more medical understanding of what happened in my body. All this could then be used by a true doctor for getting the whole picture.

Proceed to the overview.