When your symptoms don't tell the whole story (8 min)

"There’s an emerging idea in health care that social and psychological conditions -- like poverty and chronic stress -- change how your body and brain work, and that can have damaging long-term effects on your health.

"Doctors and nurses from northern California to Camden, N.J., are beginning to see that the first step in treating these patients is often treating the part of the illness that’s not on the surface. Patients like 30-year-old Elizabeth Philkill.

"For years, she'd kept her past buried inside. “Some things you do not expose. It’s a judgmental world,” she said...."

http://www.marketplace.org/topics/economy/diagnosis-camden/when-your-symptoms-dont-tell-whole-story

See also this story on Dr. Glaseroff's (who was mentioned in the above podcast) health care reform study

http://acesconnection.com/profiles/blogs/give-the-people-what-they-want-alan-glaseroff-s-radical-approach 

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