Why Don’t We Take Mental Pain as Seriously as We Take Physical Pain?
A psychiatrist explores cultural bias and the history of medicine
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7 min readDec 11, 2020
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One of the first patients I saw in medical school was an elderly man dying of metastatic colon cancer, which had spread to his bones and was excruciatingly painful. I was shocked and heartbroken when I saw him beg the doctor for more pain…