One of the things I'm learning about immersion training in languages is that schools don't prepare you for the fact that: 1. people mumble 2. people have accents *in* that language 3. I have anxiety
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Just remember that pain in your stomach is a fact, but a diagnosis is a verbal model, and the map isn't the territory any more than a menu is the meal.
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No, anxiety is actually real.
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No, we're not disagreeing. I have it too. What I _am_ saying, is that a "diagnosis" is a construct of language and law even more than of medicine. We end up getting in a crossfire between something real which is causing us pain and the verbal model which may describe it.
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Medicine is the least scientific of all the tech disciplines, and the laws/lawyers which drive it render it very slow and unresponsive,,,which is what we want, of course. But in cases where it's US (personally) it doesn't hurt to be able to make informed decisions.
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People who succeed in medicine are doctrinaire and regard authoritative pronouncements as above even their own observation. Again, not a flaw EXCEPT when the decision-maker's experience is atypical. See what I'm getting at? Intelligence reserves the right of final veto.
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See, a nice young GP tried to convince me that the sumatryptan wasn't triggering DAILY(!) migraines because that wasn't in their counterindications specs. But it was, and if I'd followed advice, I might have come to a premature end. Why? Because...
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...because dogmatic personalities fall into the trap of rejecting the patient's experience as invalid. The best doctors (mine among them) never stop listening. But for a non-medic to adopt a similar regidity, is to make religion from technology. Like I say, we're not arguing.
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