There are people who feel bad in their bodies and do nothing about it, and there are people who feel bad in their bodies and sub\u00admit their symp\u00adtoms to search engines and stop there. Then there are people who can afford to cir\u00adcu\u00adlate what hurts bet\u00adween pro\u00adfes\u00adsio\u00adnals who will offer them com\u00adpe\u00adting diag\u00adnos\u00adtic bids. This group of people fol\u00adlow a set of symp\u00adtoms toward a pro\u00admise, ask for tests, ques\u00adtion ans\u00adwers, tra\u00advel long dis\u00adtances to visit spe\u00adcia\u00adlists who might be able to reco\u00adgnize what\u2019s wrong.<\/p>\n
If symp\u00adtoms are cir\u00adcu\u00adla\u00adted long enough, a set of dis\u00adcom\u00adforts might be allo\u00adwed the mer\u00adcy of a name : a disease, a syn\u00addrome, a sen\u00adsi\u00adti\u00advi\u00adty, a search term. Sometimes that is cure enough\u2014as if to appel\u00adlate is to make okay. Sometimes to give a per\u00adson a word to call their suf\u00adfe\u00adring is the only treat\u00adment for it.<\/p>\n
In a world where so many people feel so bad, there\u2019s a com\u00admon unmar\u00adked and inde\u00adfi\u00adnite state of fee\u00adling ill that pro\u00advides, at least, mem\u00adber\u00adship in a com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adty of the uns\u00adpe\u00adci\u00adfied. Discomfort in need of diag\u00adno\u00adsis forms a fee\u00adling-scape of curious pains and cor\u00adpo\u00adreal erup\u00adtions, all unta\u00admed by the cate\u00adgo\u00adry disease. The kind of ill\u00adness that has no name is the kind that is held in sus\u00adpense or held in com\u00admon or shuf\u00adfled into the adja\u00adcen\u00adcy of psychiatry.<\/p>\n
A body in mys\u00adte\u00adrious dis\u00adcom\u00adfort exposes itself to medi\u00adcine hoping to meet a voca\u00adbu\u00adla\u00adry with which to speak of suf\u00adfe\u00adring in return. If that suf\u00adfe\u00adring does not meet suf\u00adfi\u00adcient lan\u00adguage, those who endure that suf\u00adfe\u00adring must come toge\u00adther to invent it. The sick but undiag\u00adno\u00adsed have deve\u00adlo\u00adped a lite\u00adra\u00adture of unna\u00admed ill\u00adness, a poe\u00adtry of it, too, and a nar\u00adra\u00adtive of their search for ans\u00adwers. They finesse diets in res\u00adponse to what medi\u00adcine fails, assay life\u00adstyle res\u00adtric\u00adtions, and in the mix of refi\u00adned inges\u00adtion and cor\u00adrec\u00adtive pro\u00adtec\u00adtions and rota\u00adting pro\u00adfes\u00adsio\u00adnal ins\u00adpec\u00adtions, health or ill health wan\u00adders from the bounds of medi\u00adcine, resists both disease and cure.<\/p>\n
Cancer\u2019s cus\u00adtom, on the other hand, is to rare\u00adly show up unan\u00adnoun\u00adced. Cancer comes in a wave of experts and expert tech\u00adno\u00adlo\u00adgies. It arrives via sur\u00adveillance and pro\u00adfes\u00adsio\u00adnal decla\u00adra\u00adtion. Our senses tell us almost nothing about our ill\u00adness, but the doc\u00adtors ask us to believe that what we can\u00adnot see or feel might kill us, and so we do.<\/p>\n
\u201c<\/span>They tell me,\u201d said an old man to me in the che\u00admo\u00adthe\u00adra\u00adpy infu\u00adsion room, \u201cI have can\u00adcer, but,\u201d he whis\u00adpe\u00adred, \u201cI have my doubts.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There are people who feel bad in their bodies and do nothing about it, and there are people who feel bad in their bodies and sub\u00admit their symp\u00adtoms to search engines and stop there. Then there are people who can afford to cir\u00adcu\u00adlate what hurts bet\u00adween pro\u00adfes\u00adsio\u00adnals who will offer them com\u00adpe\u00adting diag\u00adnos\u00adtic bids. This [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[121,966,3173,326,2777,3174],"class_list":["post-22629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-non-classe","tag-cancer","tag-diagnostic","tag-hypochondrie","tag-maladie","tag-mystere","tag-soulagement","post_format-post-format-quote"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testanonpertinente.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testanonpertinente.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testanonpertinente.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testanonpertinente.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testanonpertinente.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22629"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testanonpertinente.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22630,"href":"https:\/\/testanonpertinente.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22629\/revisions\/22630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testanonpertinente.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testanonpertinente.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testanonpertinente.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}