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HobgoblinKhanate1 t1_j5tg935 wrote

Reply to comment by Paradox711 in TIL about medically unexplained symptoms, almost 1/4 of all people who visit a GP in the UK have phsyical conditions that cannot be explained by gorge_orwoll

I also want to point out something people miss. There’s actually not much they can do for you for a lot of things. It’s not a case of “I’m fucked fix me”, that’s why people get ill and die every day. We can’t actually do anything anyway

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Paradox711 t1_j5thbda wrote

What do you mean?

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machisuji t1_j5twg8t wrote

Most of the treatments we have simply treat the symptoms. Say you have a viral lung infection. Not much they can do. Just give you maybe painkillers and stuff to surpress coughing too much. But the actual healing has to be done by the body and what ever they give you doesn't actually help with that. Just makes the time til you're healed more bearable.

Though with other things like a bacterial infection they can help by giving antibiotics.

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