Symptoms and No Diagnosis.

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Guest post by James Worrall. Why is there so much suffering that we cannot explain? Asked another way, why are there so many symptoms and so few diagnoses? As an emergency physician, I see many patients who arrive at the hospital with chest pain, abdominal pain, numbness of the extremities, or other potentially worrisome complaints, and yet no cause is found. In fact, I estimate that we only make a diagnosis in one …