On 04/07/07, Robert Treharne Jones <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I've heard of a concept of 'Total Body Pain' which is entirely functional
> and appears specific to certain ethnic groups.
As a junior hospital doctor I saw a fat middle-aged Asian man with
poor English. He had pain in every part of the body I enquired about.
My history of presenting complaint began: "total body pain".
He'd had a heart attack.
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Michael Leuty
Nottingham, UK
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