Norman Swann
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14,464 appearances
150 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2005
last heard Feb 2013
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Plus, an incredibly common phenomenon going to see the doctor with a problem, having lots of tests, seeing lots of specialists, only to be told they can't find anything wrong.
It's called having medically unexplained symptoms, and it's thought apart from the disability they can cause, the added
Financial costs to the healthcare system and economy can be up to eighteen thousand dollars a person.
Someone who's had a long research interest in unexplained symptoms is Michael Sharp.
He's professor of psychological medicine at the University of
And if you go and see a better neurologist?
there's some things, according to the research, that doctors can do which make it worse.
So the the worst thing they can do, for example, if you see a surgeon with unexplained symptoms, the surgeon operates.
You you you get locked into those symptoms for life.
And so the doctor kind of knows in his or her heart of hearts that it's an unexplained symptom, but is trying to be nice to somebody and not diminish the value of their symptom.
You've done a study trying to help these people.
this?
Former professor of psychiatry at the University of Manchester, Professor David Goldberg.
made his name talking about somatizing, so that there's a psychological issue expressed as physical symptoms, which plays into this prejudice of it's all in my head, Doctor.
How dare you say that?
Is this s somatising?
And even if you're having something frank like a heart attack, there's still a psychological element to that.
So why isn't this sort of practice, this workbook more prevalent?
In other words, you found a a way of helping people not curing them but helping them.
Why isn't it spread more widely?
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