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Doctors dismissed my symptoms as a sinus infection… a year later I found out I had a deadly brain tumor

Doctors dismissed my symptoms as a sinus infection… a year later I found out I had a deadly brain tumor

Long before becoming a patient, Ilene Sue Ruhoy was a prominent neurologist in Seattle, accustomed to treating disease.  She had been practicing for a decade when, in 2014, she noticed mounting fatigue, dizziness, nausea, migraines, and irritability that various doctors chalked up to stress, a hormone imbalance, and a sinus infection. None of them, she felt, truly listened or took …

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