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What Medicine Gets Wrong About Pain with Dr. Rachel Zoffness
Dr. Rachel Zoffness is a pain psychologist and assistant clinical professor at UCSF and Stanford, and she came on to do something I desperately needed, explain what I actually did not learn in medical school about pain, which turns out to be most of it. The thing I absorbed is apparently what 96% of medical schools teach as their entire compulsory pain curriculum, and it's missing about two-thirds of the actual story because pain is not made in your skin, it's constructed by your brain, which means it is always biopsychosocial: biological inputs, psychological inputs, and social inputs, and…
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