Legitimate, or further invasion of woo in academic medicine?
Increasingly, doctors across the country are recommending meditation to treat pain, and some of the nation’s top hospitals, including Stanford, Duke and NYU Medical Center, now offer meditation programs to pain patients.
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I am in chronic pain. I am also on medicaid/medicare. Physicians and their’good ole boy mentality’ have bilked our medical system plenty supposedly on my behalf. I have been sent to so many BOGUS pain clinics…bio feedback does not work ,meditation does not work, most pain medications, DO NOT WORK, especially when the diagnosticians themselves, allow their Greed, to blind their sense of morality(dollars vs decency) Judging patients/humans as ‘mental’ when if they took the time to respect and acknowledge the patient instead of their own blind GREED, they could diagnose accurately Humans, women especially (see mystery diagnosis) There is no Power but that Almighty allows it. Linda
I don’t get it Linda. I thought meditation was free? Who do you want to pay for it?
Meditation did help my chronic pain — during the actual meditation period. Once I stopped meditating, the pain returned. But what did persist was the sense that I had the ability to step outside my immediate circumstances and create a sense of restfulness, no matter what those external circumstances are. Not a bad take-away.
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