Psychiatrists sometimes also like to play a variation of the game: ‘After you’ve cleared up the physical problem, send him to me for his emotional one!’
Such splitting of the mind and body is impossible, as any successful healer knows.
The ‘nobody will touch me’ game sounds as if it’s a patient-directed one. But this has been found to be rare. Despite much talk about doctors wanting their patients back from specialists, neurosurgeons and pain specialists, they do not go about it in a way that will achieve this. Some doctors treat patients who have major neurological problems like lepers. This can often happen with those suffering intractable pain and those who are failures of traditional medical and surgical therapy, and patients with implanted stimulators. (Implanted stimulators include dorsal column stimulation,in which wires are placed inside the vertebral column to directly stimulate the spinal cord to produce pain relief.) This is an extremely expensive, and sometimes painful, procedure which often fails to produce pain relief for more than six months.
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