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Author and Journalist Nika C. Beamon Pens New Memoir,
Misdiagnosed: The Search for Dr. House

What would you do if an unknown assailant came after you you every day?
Would you surrender?
Or
Would you fight back?
Nika chose to fight.
She found out the name of her mysterious attacker.
It wasnt a man.
It was a disease an autoimmune disease.
Autoimmunity is the underlying cause of more than 100 serious, chronic illnesses.
{Office of Research on Womens Health at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) }
50 million Americans are living and coping with autoimmune disease
(American Autoimmune Related Diseases Association)
More than 75 percent of them are women.
(American Autoimmune Related Diseases Association)
Nika battled for nearly two decades to put a name to the mysterious ailment that ravaged her
body.
Why?
Because she was Misdiagnosed.
It can happen to you too.
Roughly 12 million adults who visit U.S. doctors' offices and other outpatient settings are
misdiagnosed.
(study published in British medical journal BMJ Quality & Safety)
This is about one in 20 people every year.
(Study published in British medical journal BMJ Quality & Safety)
Half of those errors could lead to serious harm.
(study published in British medical journal BMJ Quality & Safety)
Nika chronicles her struggle in the new memoir: Misdiagnosed: The Search for Dr. House.
She also gives tips to readers about how to avoid safe. Caregivers can also learn some helpful
ways to be there for their chronically ill loved one.
MISDIAGNOSED is an eye-opening, fascinating account of a brave journey through
the labyrinth of American medicine. Beamon draws the reader in skillfully, and gives us a close
up view of the power of human persistence.
Marya Hornbacher
Hornbacher is a Pulitzer Prize and Pushcart Prize nominated author. Her bestselling books
include: Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia; Madness: A Bi-Polar Life and Waiting:
A Non-Believer's Guide to a Higher Power.
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How long can my body endure all the invasions by doctors? Nika Beamons cry is heard
throughout Misdiagnosed: The Search for Dr. House. That doc does not exist, of course, but
the authors journey across hazardous terrain in the medical jungle did. Her misery being
mangled by modern medicine provides lessons on arming ourselves for the battles many of us
face.
Richard M. Cohen is the New York Times Best Selling author of Blindsided and Strong at
the Broken Places.
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This is a book is a must read for all doctors and healthcare professionals... Enigmatic to most
physicians, devastating to patients, the stuff of science fiction, and limitless in presentation;
autoimmune diseases are the frontier of medicine in the 21
st
century. They demand an
understanding of complex science and while practicing the art of medicine with
compassionRead Nikas story to understand why patients long for a diagnosis.
Robert G. Lahita MD, PhD, FACP, MACR, FRCP
Chairman of Medicine and VP, Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, Professor of Medicine,
UMDNJ
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Misdiagnosed is a gripping medical detective story. It could be a fictional episode of House
from the patients perspective, but this story is real. It is a raw telling of Nika Beamons journey
through high-tech American health care. Just as she recounts stripping naked for doctors probes
and surgeons scalpels, Beamon bares hers physical and emotional tribulations to readers.
Andrew Holtz, MPH Editor-In-Chief, HoltzReport
Author, The Medical Science of House, M.D.
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"Nika's book is a well written, eye opening, call to action. An inspiring, yet alarming story that
lets us know that even in our darkest and most alone moments, that we are not alone."
Wes Moore
Bestselling author, The Other Wes Moore.
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Everyone with an invisible illness, whether named or not, will relate to Nika Beamon's hidden
dramas in her life, dealing with the daily frustrations of a mysteriously uncooperative body -- and
then, often worse, with an ill-equipped, punishing medical system
Paula Kamen
Author of All in My Head: An Epic Quest to Cure an Unrelenting, Totally Unreasonable,
and Only Slightly Enlightening Headache
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...I truly enjoyed reading this book, not just because it was relatable to the stories I hear a lot
from women, but because you incorporated your personal trials into it as well.

...I believe it will truly help someone as they are on the quest for their own. More people need to
realize that doctors truly dont know everything and that doctors can be learning about a patients
illness right along with them!


Shaniqua D. Seth
Health Communications Manager, National Women's Health Initiative


Author Biography:

Nika C. Beamon is a TV News Writer/Producer in New York. She pursued a BA in
Communications and a BA in Sociology at Boston College in Massachusetts.
Beamon has been credited as a reference in the several books on television news and has also
won many awards throughout her career including a Peabody Award for ABC News coverage
of the September 11th Attacks.
In 2009, Chicago Review Press published her well-received non-fiction book: I Didnt Work This
Hard Just to Get Married: Successful, Single Black Women Speak Out. In 2000, she published
her first mystery novel, Dark Recesses. In 2002, her second mystery novel, Eyewitness was
released.

To go on Nikas journey with her, buy Misdiagnosed.
To find out how you can save yourself, buy Misdiagnosed.

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