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Is it normal to publish a personal anecdote in this manner? I've never seen something like this on pubmed.


Yes. It is normal and they're called medical case reports.

See:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5686928/

> A case report is a detailed report of the symptoms, signs, diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up of an individual patient. Case reports usually describe an unusual or novel occurrence and as such, remain one of the cornerstones of medical progress and provide many new ideas in medicine.




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