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Brain Fertilizer, Soul Points, and a Bucket of Pain
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How crazy is it that pain is one of my favorite topics? Not so crazy as pain may be life’s most common symptom. One study pegs the annual cost of pain (as a primary diagnosis) to be between $261 to $300 billion. Yikes. No one I’d rather talk with about pain than Amy Baxter. Amy and I correspond regularly about life and pain. We last recorded a conversation about pain in July 2019, Pain: The Solution — Many Solutions. Our knowledge about the pathways and switches of the brain’s survival system has increased dramatically since 2019. Let’s jump right in.
Podcast intro
Welcome to Health Hats, the Podcast. I’m Danny van Leeuwen, a two-legged cisgender old white man of privilege who knows a little bit about a lot of healthcare and a lot about very little. We will listen and learn about what it takes to adjust to life’s realities in the awesome circus of healthcare. Let’s make some sense of all of this.
Learning from lived experience
Health Hats: You’ve learned much about pain since we last talked. Tell us about that.
