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PDFMe and my neurological illness
What I learned from my illness. Listen to what a patient tells you about changes in their experience and function, not about their current state
Abstract
I only realised how much my osteoarthritic hip had altered my life after the operation enabled me to return to activities I did not know I had stopped. Identifying need for and benefit from treatments should focus on relative changes in experience and function, not on a person’s absolute state at a particular time.
- pain
- denial
- disability
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