Dr. Rachel Zoffness
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 20 Jul
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One of my favorite ever podcasts.
I'm so honored to be here.
Absolutely.
The biomedical model is an antiquated way of looking at disease and pain that focuses primarily, if not exclusively, on anatomy and physiology and bones and body parts and what that means in the biomedical frame of things.
is that when we talk about treating pain, we also talk primarily, if not exclusively, about biomedical solutions, and that takes the form of pills and procedures.
So here's what I observe as a clinician and pain researcher.
What I observe is that if you have chronic knee pain, you will be sent to 762 knee specialists, but we never talk about your brain at all.
I love these two stories, and I call them a tale of two nails, because who doesn't like rhymes?
So, yes, the first story, the first tale of nails, is a construction worker who was working on a job site when he jumped off a plank straight onto a seven-inch nail.
And that nail drove through his boot clear through to the other side.
Oh, my God.
Yes.
It was excruciating.
And his colleagues rushed him off to the emergency department.
And he was sedated with a lot of good drugs like, you know, fentanyl and other opioids.
And when the good doctors removed his boot, they discovered that a miracle had occurred.
The nail had passed between the space between his toes.
There was no puncture wound.
There was no blood and there was no tissue damage.
It makes no sense, right?
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