Early in the show, Toby Fleishman (Jesse Eisenberg) correctly diagnoses a patient, Karen Cooper (Julie Tolivar) who has been dismissed or misdiagnosed by every other doctor who has examined her. In an October 2019 Washington Post article, Rachel Rosenblit reports that this aspect of the story is repeated quite closely from an aspect of the source novelist's own life: Some "details in the book are ripped straight from Brodesser-Akner's own life . . . helping underscore the way being a woman can feel like the rawest of deals. By the time Karen Cooper, Toby's patient, is diagnosed with Wilson's disease, a rare liver affliction, she'd had her symptoms dismissed by an internist as depression, and sent away with a prescription for Zoloft. Brodesser-Akner has written of this very thing happening to her, of being repeatedly told her exhaustion was depression, until her doctor 'begrudgingly' did bloodwork and discovered she had mono. She knows plenty of other women, she's written, 'who've been dismissed by their doctors for being lazy and careless and . . . downright crazy.' For Karen, whose disease could have been easily diagnosed from the early onset symptom of copper-colored rings around her irises, Brodesser-Akner told a book tour crowd in D.C., 'I liked the idea - it's kind of a hint - that if anybody had been looking her in the eye, they would have known about this long before it ever happened.' How invisible can a person be?"
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