Posted by Racer on July 1, 2005, at 19:38:34 [reposted on July 2, 2005, at 1:13:19 | original URL]
In reply to Pain neglected in depression, posted by ed_uk on July 1, 2005, at 12:37:50
There is a show over here that runs on Public Television, called "Medical Answers" that had a show on this a while back. The show is simple: a doctor interviewing other doctors about their specialties. (The host is a psychiatrist, which makes it very funny when they discuss psychiatric issues -- he often invites someone on to interview him!)
The pain researcher talked about how often pain was neglected in the medical field, and how damaging that was. Seems that nerves get into the habit of expressing pain, if you don't treat pain adequately. This was all pretty new stuff, but he said that he was working to get all GPs to ask about pain -- even used the joke about "WNL" meaning "We Never Looked" -- rather than waiting for the patient to volunteer the info. He also mentioned that chronic pain can *cause* depression in vulnerable people.
Very interesting show.
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