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Could there be a hundred people claiming fantastical symptoms for every one person who's genuine?
by jimmaswell 2y ago
Could there be a hundred people claiming fantastical symptoms for every one person who's genuine?
- Palomides 2y agothe reality is that very close to 100% of people have ambiguous, transient pain and a large number of them come to the doctor asking for something to be done (and also mix in people who are fishing for pain meds, really are hypochondriacs, or really are experiencing something psychogenic) in a practical sense, it's extremely difficult to narrow that down to a specific actionable cause, and the system is simply not set up to deal with this stuff