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There really are too many "I know you better than you do" doctors out there. There should be a consumer panel that rates doctors according to their efforts towa

• PaulHoule 8y ago
  It is not just that, it is also that there are not reproducible methods for helping people with chronic pain. The lady who wrote the article had a lot of resentment about the suggestion that her problems were at least partially psychological and insisted that they were completely physical. You will hear that from every fibro, and it is real that there is something not right about their body, but also there is something not right in their head, they are clearly depressed, have given up on life, etc. Chronic pain is always both physical and mental. For me chronic pain has been associated with trouble at work. I had a time when I was unemployed and in agony and I got a job and felt better right away. When I have been in places where the story doesn't make sense, I feel it in my back and shoulders. So far as consumer panels, unfortunately health care practitioners would get voted up for being easy to prescribe controlled substances, not making patients confront people whose race they don't like, etc...