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 Posted - 05/15/2006 : 06:24:27
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This weekend I was taking a course where a doctor also happened to be attending. He has been a doctor for many years and has seen thousands of patients. I asked him the following direct, straight forward question:
"In your years in medicine what is the most perplexing, confusing, mysterious set of symptoms that defies explanation that you have ever encountered and, despite various kinds of treatment programs to correct the problem, patients consistently fail to get better."
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2scoops
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Posted - 05/15/2006 : 06:43:56
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Posted - 05/15/2006 : 09:44:08
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It's got to be back pain. Here are some stats from today's Guardian newspaper - in any given year, half the population of the UK will suffer from back pain lasting at least one day, 80% of the population will suffer from it in a lifetime, it is the leading cause of disability in the country (over a million people are disabled by it - out of a population of around 60 million) and costs the country an estimated 1-2% of the gross national product.
I don't suppose it's much different in most other countries.
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Posted - 05/16/2006 : 08:29:34
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| yes, you are both correct, the doctor indeed said back pain. |
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2scoops
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Posted - 05/16/2006 : 14:41:14
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| This is just one of the many symptoms they have no idea to treat. |
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ralphyde
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Posted - 05/16/2006 : 19:48:34
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Peter,
I hope you clued him in about TMS and Dr. Sarno's books.
Ralph |
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My conversation with a Primary Care Doctor
