keepontruckin
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What about the other option, and that is the one where there is something physically wrong and the doctors simply haven't got the knowledge, done enough research, don't have the time, or lack funding??
Or the patient has a condition that baffles medical science now but maybe won't in another 100 years?
Money isn't a problem: 36 billion $ for HIV a year...So what about those who have a disease medical science is as yet ignorant about? (frequently because research costs MONEY!)
For more than a decade, Kim Hawes of Dartmouth, N.S., suffered from chemical sensitivity, agoraphobia, anxiety and depression, and no doctor could tell her why. Her condition resolved and she was able to return to work after undergoing an innovative form of talk therapy with psychiatrist Allan Abbass, whose methods suggest that unexplained physical symptoms can be caused by unresolved emotional trauma
A man arrives via wheelchair, dragging frozen feet the last few steps, leaning heavily on a cane. He takes a seat, talks to Dr. Abbass. When he leaves, he carries his cane under his arm.
As employees, they rack up sick days. Many end up on long-term disability. They are often unfairly suspected of faking. But their pain is real, says Dr. Abbass. It’s just been caused, or made worse, by psychological factors.
Well....it strikes me this is focusing on the same old options.
Scans, invasive tests (probably even inappropriate ones "just to be on the safe side"), more scans, MRIs....yada yada....
OR when they show up nothing....psychiatry.
Easy! You have unresolved traumas! Problem solved,
"Oh we have this magic for you! Go and thrash out your traumas with a tough love psychiatrist and your medical issue will be solved!"