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...When you go in for a routine check up, "I can't find anything wrong" is a great thing to hear the doctor say. It's not so great when something really hurts. Orthopedic medicine is largely about treating pain; arthritis, pinched nerves, torn tissues and broken bones are our business. Patients who complain of pain but have no hard evidence of anything wrong when we examine them can make this business very tricky, and unfortunately, there are plenty of people like this...
...there's always the money angle, which - no surprise - is very common. People can get out of work and still get paid with a "doctor's note", and many expect to be paid-off in a lawsuit if a doctor validates their claim. Are these people lying? How can you prove it? In 2006, with all the modern medical technology we have, pain still remains completely subjective; it exists only in the mind of the person feeling...
...become disabled by being a good plaintiff. It's the evil twin of rehabilitation - act sick-get sick - and it happens a lot. "Accentuate the negative" may be sound legal counsel, but it's the worst possible medical advice anyone could ever give. It's a pain for the doctor, and often ultimately, an even bigger pain for the patient...
...stop whaling. "I couldn't care less if I don't eat another whale until the day I die," says Kenji Yamashiro, 35, a systems engineer in Tokyo. "But I don't like to be told what I can or can't eat by anyone other than my doctor...
...says.Donahue says the Office of Financial Aid does not track the number of students who take out additional loans for medical school applications or the amount that they borrow.Despite the financial burden, many Harvard students say that the costs are a necessary step toward becoming a doctor.“In the future, you will get it many times back since it is such a rewarding field,” says Jennifer X. Cai ’07, the president of the Harvard PreMedical Society. —Staff writer Madeline W. Lissner can be reached at mlissner@fas.harvard.edu...