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"I diagnosed ‘abdominal pain’ when the real problem was hunger. I
confused social issues with medical problems in other patients, too. I
mislabeled the hopelessness of long-term unemployment as depression, and
the poverty that causes patients to miss pills or appointments as
noncompliance. In one older patient, I mistook the inability to read for
dementia. My medical training had not prepared me for this ambush of
social circumstance. Real-life obstacles had an enormous impact on my
patients’ lives, but because I had neither the skills nor the resources
for treating them, I ignored the social context of disease altogether.”
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