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As a young graduate, I began to practice family medicine in 1973, armed with the latest scientific knowledge and the smugness of youth. After 10 years of experience, I was less confident but more perplexed and bewildered because I was seeing an increasing number of patients with multiple, unexplained symptoms. I could find nothing wrong with them on physical examination and all the laboratory tests that I could think of to perform were normal. The various specialists that I referred these patients to for a second opinion invariably came to the conclusion that there was nothing wrong with these patients and their symptoms were in their heads. My problem was that I couldn’t agree. Continue reading →