Breaking barriers in the education of persistent physical symptoms, 2025, Rafi et al

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Breaking barriers in the education of persistent physical symptoms

Rafi, Damir; Rafi, Imran

Abstract
Persistent physical symptoms (PPS) account for around 45% of all primary care consultations, and are associated with significant disability and costs. While not always the case, co-existent mental health difficulties can often present alongside PPS. Individuals suffering from PPS may present with psychological symptoms such as rumination and catastrophising, as well as early adverse childhood events. Research has shown that adequately understanding and managing psychological factors associated with PPS can prevent symptoms from being more chronic and disabling.

Adequate education therefore is vital for medical students and doctors, particularly GPs, such that they are able to manage PPS in a professional, knowledgeable and patient-centred manner. At present there exist several barriers to such education – including curriculum overload and a lack of alignment with the current structure of medical school, whereby physical and mental health are often taught in separate blocks.

We suggest several ways in which barriers can be broken, such that GPs feel more empowered to manage patients with PPS. These include a greater emphasis on the psychological dimensions of illness from an early stage in medical school, an improved framework for taking a history from patients with PPS, more exposure to case studies and real-life patient experiences of PPS, narrowing the gap between theoretical teaching and the realities of the workplace, including importantly highlighting multidisciplinary working and improved education around communicating effectively with patients with PPS. We hope that by breaking these barriers, doctors can feel more able to enquire about, understand and manage PPS, ultimately leading to better outcomes for patients.

Web | DOI | Future Healthcare Journal

 

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Most of this is plain false, or at best wildly misleading, and none of it makes any sense. This is completely disconnected from reality. We are really nearing the point at which AI medicine is no longer necessary just to keep progressing, but to prevent massive regression.

This is "future health care" in the same way as NFTs are the future of both investing and art. It's a return to old superstitious nonsense, but with the marketing of Goop. It's as if every wrong idea from the past was taken and mulched together.

 

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Breaking barriers in the education of persistent physical symptoms

Rafi, Damir; Rafi, Imran

Abstract
Persistent physical symptoms (PPS) account for around 45% of all primary care consultations, and are associated with significant disability and costs. While not always the case, co-existent mental health difficulties can often present alongside PPS. Individuals suffering from PPS may present with psychological symptoms such as rumination and catastrophising, as well as early adverse childhood events. Research has shown that adequately understanding and managing psychological factors associated with PPS can prevent symptoms from being more chronic and disabling.

Adequate education therefore is vital for medical students and doctors, particularly GPs, such that they are able to manage PPS in a professional, knowledgeable and patient-centred manner. At present there exist several barriers to such education – including curriculum overload and a lack of alignment with the current structure of medical school, whereby physical and mental health are often taught in separate blocks.

We suggest several ways in which barriers can be broken, such that GPs feel more empowered to manage patients with PPS. These include a greater emphasis on the psychological dimensions of illness from an early stage in medical school, an improved framework for taking a history from patients with PPS, more exposure to case studies and real-life patient experiences of PPS, narrowing the gap between theoretical teaching and the realities of the workplace, including importantly highlighting multidisciplinary working and improved education around communicating effectively with patients with PPS. We hope that by breaking these barriers, doctors can feel more able to enquire about, understand and manage PPS, ultimately leading to better outcomes for patients.

Web | DOI | Future Healthcare Journal

umm

when it is lies and slander because it is both made up and going to destroy those it is sticking labels onto wrongly that will affect not just their medical care but their entire lives

then it isn't 'education'

it is mis-education and something grossly sinister and wrong. A propagandic manifesto for bigotry and discrimination, and confessing it is being pushed on an organised basis. NO 'medicine' or 'good' behind it, just letting warped ideologists have free reign at taking over a service that is supposed to be about making health better not harming.

Just as if someone was 'teaching' whole professions or indeed groups of schoolkids other 'isms' to lead to harm and isolation of others.

this author needs to take a good look at what they are doing and what that makes them.

Howabout they consider and write a paper on how their life would be destroyed and changed and in how many micro-aspects if there were a concerted effort to teach everyone who might offer a service or come into contact with or hire them was being 'taught' this bigotry about them.

Because there is the exact same amount of evidence or 'science' to justify someone doing that to them as they have to suggest it for those they are actively targeting

And to be honest from the evidence simply of someone choosing to write this sort of thing about others I would say a heck of a lot of justification for their needing to be 're-educated' and if not then yes, what the heck, take them out of the game by doing this to their reputation - as they know it would well do if they had all of this stuck on them. There's definitely a big issue with 'psychological factors' going on for anyone to write such

 

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now they are trying to colonise the phrase debunk, which I suppose was obvious for the language distorter propagandist industry that pretends its part of medicine for reasons other than some ideological problem the industry has, would need to be done because all of their 'research' doesn't have any research and is just dodgy manifestos basically with no methodology. So of course they'd have to take the meaning out of the one word that could most commonly be used about them.

That phrase about lunatics and assylums is hard to forget when you look at this area. So I guess in the vein of their techniques we should pretend its not their fault because they don't even realise what they are doing until someone 'helps' them?