Edwards, MJ
(2021)
Functional neurological disorder: lighting the way to a new paradigm for medicine.
Brain, 144 (11).
pp. 3279-3282.
ISSN 1460-2156
https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/awab358
SGUL Authors: Edwards, Mark John James
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Abstract
What if the patients most health professionals actively seek to avoid, people with "medically unexplained" or functional symptoms, were those who hold the key to a more successful, more rewarding and more just system of medical practice for all? I think they do. They force us to answer the question, to paraphrase Wittgenstein: What is left over, if I subtract the fact that I have a disease, from the fact that I am ill? Within the answer to this question is the human, participatory aspect of illness, which, despite hundreds of mission statements to the contrary from healthcare organisations the world over, is not adequately addressed in our medical training, practice and principles. We can and should do better, and this is a proposal for how.
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Additional Information: | © The Author(s) (2021). Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Guarantors of Brain. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. | ||||||||
Keywords: | 11 Medical and Health Sciences, 17 Psychology and Cognitive Sciences, Neurology & Neurosurgery | ||||||||
SGUL Research Institute / Research Centre: | Academic Structure > Molecular and Clinical Sciences Research Institute (MCS) | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Brain | ||||||||
ISSN: | 1460-2156 | ||||||||
Language: | eng | ||||||||
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Publisher License: | Creative Commons: Attribution 4.0 | ||||||||
PubMed ID: | 34605862 | ||||||||
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URI: | https://openaccess.sgul.ac.uk/id/eprint/113780 | ||||||||
Publisher's version: | https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/awab358 |
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