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As last month, Roger Jones's April 2019 Editor’s briefing has given cause to revisit, again, my response1 to his ‘Do no harm’ Editor’s briefing two years ago. The challenge of learning from
‘ medically unexplained symptoms’ is surely urgent. I and others have been flagging this up2 and have repeatedlybeen patronised and ignored.There is a ‘medical’ explanation for many ‘unexplained’ symptoms: medicine. However, doctors are being actively trained to disbelieve patients’ experiences3 and to assume ‘unknown aetiology’ and/or ‘psychosomatic’ causes.
'The Patient Voice: an analysis of personal accounts of prescribed drug dependence and withdrawal submitted...
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