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Very interesting, relating to the following:
(1) Human Rights Council of and for Persons with Pain (Write ldmf@... to inquire/re HRCPP).
(2) Too many other areas also where credibility is deserved but can seem inappropriately and even dangerously scarce.
Too often one goes from hearing "that's imaginary" to ... that's chronic. Even, "it's gone too far and cannot be treated."
LDMF.
L. D. Misek-Falkoff, Ph.D., J.D..
----- Original Message -----From: ColRevsSent: Saturday, October 30, 2004 7:20 AMSubject: [DisabilityConvention] Under the Medical Gaze:Facts and Fictions of Chronic Pain
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Under the Medical Gaze: Facts and Fictions of Chronic Pain
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ISBN : 0-520-22398-5 Published: 07 May 2001 Publisher: University of California Press Binding: Paperback
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Book Review of Under the Medical Gaze: Facts and Fictions of Chronic Pain
Susan Greenhalgh has written a fascinating account of how the process of medical diagnosis and treatment can go horribly astray despite the best intentions of both the doctor and the patient. Greenhalgh had suffered for years from a painful arthritic condition. Upon moving to California she found her condition getting much worse. Unsatisfied with the care she was getting from the local rheumatologist care that addressed the flare-ups of pain but not the cause of the pain she sought help from a rheumatologist some distance away who had been recommended to her by a friend. At her first visit this rheumatologist then misdiagnosed her with fibromyalgia among other conditions. The treatments he then recommended caused side effects which mimicked fibromyalgia and compounded his initial misdiagnosis. He treated the side effects that included severe headaches neck and back pain cognitive difficulties vision problems and severe depression as further evidence ...
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