July 23, 2012     Permalink The High Cost of Medically Unexplained Symptoms Submitted by Lewis Mehl-Madrona

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IN this article, I address medically unexplained symptoms and their high costs on the health care system.  I suggest that we are really good at diagnosing serious and life-threatening illnesses, but not so good with garden-variety problems.  I review the mind-body problem and suggest that mind and body and life are intertwined and that when life sucks and we are miserable our bodies feel symptoms.  I review the biology for how this happens and suggest what we can do differently to reduce costs for medically unexplained symptoms.