The Harm of Labels

November 6, 2008

The medical community goes to great lengths to place patients in neat little cubby holes by labeling each person with a diagnosis. A recently published study by Buitenhuis et al (Spine, 2008, Volume 33, Number 22, p 2427-2433) demonstrated that specifically believing that one’s neck pain was due to a “whiplash” injury contributed to a [...]

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