![]() ![]() I didn’t know you could have a seizure from sadness. She is grieving the death of her brother, and her grief has sublimated into seizures. My specialty case is Stephanie Phillips, a twenty-three-year-old who suffers from something called conversion disorder. The scripts dig deep into our fictive lives: the ages of our children and the diseases of our parents, the names of our husbands’ real-estate and graphic-design firms, the amount of weight we’ve lost in the past year, the amount of alcohol we drink each week. We are supposed to unfurl the answers according to specific protocols. ![]() They tell us how much to give away, and when. They outline what’s wrong with us-not just what hurts but how to express it. Our scripts are ten to twelve pages long. Medical acting works like this: you get a script and a paper gown. I’m fluent in the symptoms of preeclampsia and asthma and appendicitis. I’m called a Standardized Patient, which means I act toward the norms of my disorders. M y job title is Medical Actor, which means I play sick. ![]()
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