More and more patients are writing about their experience of living with illness. We have the possibility to know much more about patient’s inner lives, what it means to live with illness, and how patients manage their bodies and emotions than we have ever done before.
But how many of these accounts are read by doctors? Are they part of their curriculum?
I’m asking because I’m curious…
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"Medicine's bad philosophy threatens your health"
https://iai.tv/articles/medicines-bad-philosophy-threatens-your-health-auid-2225
"In recent years medicine has increasingly recognized a connection between mind and body and how the interaction between the two can affect our health. But in its effort to avoid a problematic separation between mind and body, medicine has been led astray. Due to misunderstanding what in philosophy is called mind-body dualism, trained medical doctors end up over-diagnosing conditions as psychosomatic, automatically construing medically unexplained symptoms as psychiatric problems. This is a philosophical error that ends up putting the health of patients at risk, argues Diane O’Leary."
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#MECFS #pwME #longCOVID #EDS #POTS #MCAS #MedMastodon
In recent years medicine has increasingly recognized a connection between mind and body and how the interaction between the two can affect our health. But in its effort to avoid a problematic separation between mind and body, medicine has been led astray. Due to misunderstanding what in philosophy is called mind-body dualism, trained medical doctors end up over-diagnosing conditions as psychosomatic, automatically construing medically unexplained symptoms as psychiatric problems. This is a philosophical error that ends up putting the health of patients at risk, argues Diane O’Leary.
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