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An interview with Dr. Nortin M. Hadler hosted on National Public Radio Thursday, October 4. to promote his latest novel, The Last Well Person.
http://wunc.org/tsot/archive/sot1004a07.mp3/view
Its spring 2007 release almost a foray of things to come in documentary filmmaker Michael Moore’s hugely successful Sicko, The Last Well Person is a provocative look at how America’s self-serving medical industry, through unnecessary intervention, turns healthy people into patients.
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Dr. Hadler is professor of Medicine and Microbiology/Immunology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and attending rheumatologist, University of North Carolina Hospitals.
For Hadler to quote, :Dr. Nortin Hadler says telling people they have fibromyalgia can actually doom them to a life of suffering by reinforcing the idea that they have an incurable disease.
“It’s been shown that if you are diagnosed with fibromyalgia, your chances for returning to a level of well-being that satisfies you are pretty dismal,” said Hadler, a professor at the University of North Carolina, who has occasionally advised health insurers on how to deal with fibromyalgia.
Hadler said people labeled with fibromyalgia are indeed suffering, not from a medical disease but from a psychological condition. Instead of drugs, patients should receive therapy to help them “unlearn” their predicament, he said.
He is absolute a cynic. I have fibromyalgia and I can tell you it is REAL.
Dr. Hadler is clearly a stubborn idiot. Perhaps he should read some of the science (brain scans, etc) that clearly shows a difference between FM patients and healthy people. I didn’t “learn” my “predicament”, I got sick. Do I think stress contributes to FM, yep. Stress makes most things worse; however, when I’m not stressed, I’m still in pain and fatigued. I wonder where one goes to unlearn a disease? Hey, maybe he can cure arthritis patients next – send them off somewhere to unlearn their pain and swelling. What a knucklehead. Perhaps he should actually spend some time with Fibromyalgia patients before he causes any more damage to us, because it’s hard enough having a disease that people can’t see. Maybe then, he can try to figure out how some people have gone from being healthy & athletic workout obsessed people their whole lives to suddenly being in too much pain and too exhausted to do much more than walk from their bedroom to the kitchen. None of us want to live our lives like this.
Can I just please point out that this is NOT A NOVEL. It is a work of non-fiction and to represent it as a work of ficiton is misleading. Please correct this.
Dr. Hadler is absolutely correct. Fibromyalgia is a convenient social construction–not an illness–which allows people to get narcotics and avoid work.