Pain and Perfectionism — The Physician and the “Pain Patient”

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Pain more than "health" has been a central concern of the physician as his guide to internal disorders, for to patient and physician alike, pain usually means disease or disorder of some kind. Yet, talk with a philosopher who has abdominal pain, and you will find how difficult it is for one person to tell another of his visceral sensations, and what a burden it is for the physician to decide which pain is real and which imaginary, which pain gets antacids and which an operation, and which puts the patient to bed and which sends him off to a . . .

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