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That the medical community acts as if you and I should be treated the same is insane to me.
by mousethatroared 1y ago
That the medical community acts as if you and I should be treated the same is insane to me.
- abandonliberty 1y agoPain, like sleep, is a super interesting field and specialization, that is somewhat secondary for most medical practitioners. In physiotherapy, we used to think that structural issues like slipped disks caused pain, but when we started imaging healthy people, we found the same structural issues commonly in the 'healthy' population. Both how much pain we feel and how sensitive we are to it are things that can be learned. The bullet ant initiation rites of the Sateré-Mawé people are an extreme example. A decent book on this is 'dopamine nation'.