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TLDR: It was Schnitzler Syndrome, a rare autoimmune disease. Clickbait titles and suspense-novel narrative structures in articles like this really annoy me for

TLDR: It was Schnitzler Syndrome, a rare autoimmune disease. Clickbait titles and suspense-novel narrative structures in articles like this really annoy me for some reason. Just get to the point.

washadjeffmad 9y ago
Thanks, I didn't find the format interesting, and yours was the first comment to mention or discuss the finding. Info on Schnitzler Syndrome: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schnitzler_syndrome https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schnitzler_syndrome
- derriz 9y ago
  Thanks. I'd love it if the first comment on every post was a link to a wikipedia article or other reasonably dry/authoritative source describing the substantive subject of the story. Often (but not always) I'm just not interested in reading the "human element" aspects that often dominate general/popular news stories. A title like this pricks my curiousity but I know I'll have to wade through substantial back-story to get to the meat of the article.
jaclaz 9y ago
>Clickbait titles and suspense-novel narrative structures in articles like this really annoy me for some reason. Just get to the point. You are right, the suspense approach, is terrible, I had the impression that the protagonist of the story was the Dr. May, and then it comes out as being only another doctor that remained clueless making every kind of unneeded tests for seven months until - by sheer luck - a curious trainee managed to find the right clue, reportedly by digging into early medical records. I may add that it looks to me somehow "disturbing" the Senseless Capitalized Initials of the title and paragraphs.
gaius 9y ago
Right; it's like someone has watched too many episodes of House and thinks that's how doctors are/should be.
- DoreenMichele 9y ago
  Or like internet publications are killing dead tree ones and then having trouble getting monetized because of the ongoing ad blocker wars, so publications are desperately trying tricks to be more interesting.
- com_kieffer 9y ago
  In this case it is the other way around. AFAIK Dr. Sanders was the inspiration for House.
rando444 9y ago
This is from New York Times Magazine. Think something like GQ, Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone. It's not meant to be a news article, it's a story.
- salgernon 9y ago
  Further, it’s a popular recurring story arc that appears in many popular magazines (Discover, which for some reason I always buy when flying has a regular series) and in many books (eg, ``Awakenings’’ by Oliver Sacks) Whether this particular submission meets the criteria for a HN discussion could be debated, although it does seem to have generated at least some useful comments.
linkmotif 9y ago
I call this the Ira Glass effect. At some point in the 2000s everything became This American Life.

TLDR: It was Schnitzler Syndrome, a rare autoimmune disease. Clickbait titles and suspense-novel narrative structures in articles like this really annoy me for some reason. Just get to the point.

washadjeffmad 9y ago

Thanks, I didn't find the format interesting, and yours was the first comment to mention or discuss the finding. Info on Schnitzler Syndrome: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schnitzler_syndrome https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schnitzler_syndrome

derriz 9y ago
Thanks. I'd love it if the first comment on every post was a link to a wikipedia article or other reasonably dry/authoritative source describing the substantive subject of the story. Often (but not always) I'm just not interested in reading the "human element" aspects that often dominate general/popular news stories. A title like this pricks my curiousity but I know I'll have to wade through substantial back-story to get to the meat of the article.

jaclaz 9y ago

>Clickbait titles and suspense-novel narrative structures in articles like this really annoy me for some reason. Just get to the point. You are right, the suspense approach, is terrible, I had the impression that the protagonist of the story was the Dr. May, and then it comes out as being only another doctor that remained clueless making every kind of unneeded tests for seven months until - by sheer luck - a curious trainee managed to find the right clue, reportedly by digging into early medical records. I may add that it looks to me somehow "disturbing" the Senseless Capitalized Initials of the title and paragraphs.

gaius 9y ago

Right; it's like someone has watched too many episodes of House and thinks that's how doctors are/should be.

DoreenMichele 9y ago
Or like internet publications are killing dead tree ones and then having trouble getting monetized because of the ongoing ad blocker wars, so publications are desperately trying tricks to be more interesting.
com_kieffer 9y ago
In this case it is the other way around. AFAIK Dr. Sanders was the inspiration for House.

rando444 9y ago

This is from New York Times Magazine. Think something like GQ, Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone. It's not meant to be a news article, it's a story.

salgernon 9y ago
Further, it’s a popular recurring story arc that appears in many popular magazines (Discover, which for some reason I always buy when flying has a regular series) and in many books (eg, ``Awakenings’’ by Oliver Sacks) Whether this particular submission meets the criteria for a HN discussion could be debated, although it does seem to have generated at least some useful comments.

linkmotif 9y ago

I call this the Ira Glass effect. At some point in the 2000s everything became This American Life.