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It would be nice to see some research attemoting to understand the misunderstanding of chronic pain among a significant fraction of the medical community. We just saw one MD post that he believes that all pain patients do is refill their meds and have no interest being proactive.
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Of course that's false. Many MDs seem to think that everyone just sits around all day long complaining about pain. The reality is that this hell of a third world country (the US) requires even pain patients to work several jobs and still pass debt to their children.
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Private medical practitioners seem not to understand this. Psychology does though: Those with wealth (as practitioners iften are) rapidly lose touch with reality, resulting in misconceptions about people whose lives aren't as carefree as theirs are.
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Of course this behavior of MDs often results in insufficient (or non-existent) treatment for serious diseases which are often missed or misdiagnosed because of incompetence on their part. Of course it isnt surprising given what we know about US medicine. goo.gl/6T5uZE