A patient suffering from abdominal pain consulted Dr. Jolting (Fictional Name). The patient said, “I am very worried as I am having this pain for last 5 years.”
Dr. Jolting replied, “The fact that you are having the pain for the last 5 years is a good sign. It is the reason that you should not worried about your illness.”
The patient looked at Dr. Jolting as if he has gone mad. “What is this nonsense you are saying? How can my having the abdominal pain for 5 years can be a good thing?”
“What is important in any illness is the cause and not the symptoms” explained Dr. Jolting. “The abdominal pain is just the symptom, i.e. the manifestation of some disease in the abdomen. The fact that you are having abdominal pain and still alive and relatively healthy even after 5 years means the cause of your abdominal pain is not some serious disease like cancer or tuberculosis. It’s most likely a functional problem which will get relived by proper diet and medications.”
“So don’t worry. Psychological worry sometimes plays a big role in abdominal pain.” adviced Dr. Jolting.
It is indeed taught in medical school that malignancy or cancers have a short duration of illness and benign diseases a long course. A long duration of illness may be paradoxically a good sign from a pathological point of view, although a distressing point for the sufferer.
(Based on true incident)
— ND
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