People with a physics background are taught to be ridiculously fussy about their choice of words, and this spills over into real life. I've had this issue with one of my PhD supervisors over my use of language in my (engineering) thesis.
Mind you, I've yet to meet a physicist who tells me that they've lost mass recently...
If you're interested in studies of chronic pain, I suggest you talk to my other half (also Mike), as this is his specialist field. Mike's general belief is that the majority of patients who present with chronic pain symptoms do so as a result of their mental state, which magnifies their physical symptoms. Simply getting people to relax and have an authority figure conduct some form of "treatment", then tell them that they ought to get better can be remarkably effective...
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Mind you, I've yet to meet a physicist who tells me that they've lost mass recently...
If you're interested in studies of chronic pain, I suggest you talk to my other half (also Mike), as this is his specialist field. Mike's general belief is that the majority of patients who present with chronic pain symptoms do so as a result of their mental state, which magnifies their physical symptoms. Simply getting people to relax and have an authority figure conduct some form of "treatment", then tell them that they ought to get better can be remarkably effective...
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