Doctor after doctor misdiagnosed or shrugged off Ruth Wilson’s rashes, swelling, fevers, and severe pain for six years. She saved her life by begging for one more test in an emergency room about to send her home, again, without answers. That last-ditch test found the US woman’s kidneys were failing. The culprit? Her immune system had been attacking her own body all that time and nobody caught it. “I just wish there was a better way that patients could get that diagnosis without having to go