Category Error (1, introduction) Logical Fallacy underlies the Medical Mismanagement of Chronic Pain
New 2-hour video is being edited and processed today (a harder process than one might suppose)
For the past few weeks I’ve been trying to figure out the specific reason(s) for the medical mismanagement of chronic pain; over this past weekend, I figured it out.
Here on this page, I want to foreshadow that process and provide some of the resources that I used; of course, this will somewhat deflate the surprise that is revealed within the 2-hour video that I recorded recently and which is still being edited and embellished, but I’d rather make progress on sharing this understanding than hold everyone in suspense—yeah, right :-)
Sure, the financial and hegemonical motives for medical mismanagement are obvious; by perpetually mismanaging chronic pain conditions (and other problems such as viral infections) the medical-drug trade makes recurrent profit and also maintains social-professional control over the topic.
But I am not convinced that money and power are alone sufficient to keep this game in play; I’ve been looking for an explanation that clarifies the errors in perception that underlie the problem, with the assumption that 10+ years of exhaustion, sleep deprivation, indoctrination, ignorance/condemnation of nutrition, and Stockholm Syndrome are not the only players on the field. As demonstrated in 1) the video presentation from Harvard Medical School 2018 that I reviewed last week and 2) the article published in American Family Physician 2021 by the American Academy of Family Physicians, these medical professionals remain steadfastly convinced that they are correct in their approach while at the same time they demonstrate the data showing that their approach is a near-complete failure. What forces explain these errors in perception, behavior, and self-correction?
Persistent Evidence of errors in perception, behavior, and self-correction in the medical (mis)management of chronic pain conditions.
Two other articles that demonstrate this same clownlike hubris are the tragicocomedic “The science of fibromyalgia” published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings 2011 Sep;86(9):907-11 (which I reviewed in the video youtu.be/41opevN87qs posted below)…
…and “Neurogenic neuroinflammation in fibromyalgia and complex regional pain syndrome” published in Nature Reviews Rheumatology 2015 Nov;11(11):639-48 to which I replied with the publication “Neuroinflammation in fibromyalgia and CRPS is multifactorial” in Nature Reviews Rheumatology 2016 Apr;12(4):242.
Another article that has stood out prominently among the tens of thousands of articles I’ve read is “Glucosamine, Chondroitin Sulfate, and the Two in Combination for Painful Knee Osteoarthritis” published in New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) 2006 Feb; 354:795-808.
This novice-level propaganda obviously funded by the pharma company that makes the competing drug celecoxib was celebrated by the allopathic medical world as evidence of the triumph of drugs over nutritional supplements when the more accurate interpretation is that this study was designed to fail because it used ineffective delivery of an otherwise safe and effective nutritional supplement.
Here below, I want to foreshadow the process of understanding these events and problems and provide some of the resources that I used; of course, this will somewhat deflate the surprise that is revealed within the 2-hour video that I recorded recently and which is still being edited and embellished, but I’d rather make progress on sharing this understanding than hold everyone in suspense—yeah, right :-)
Some of the sources I used include the following:
"SCIENCE OF PAIN MANAGEMENT" from Harvard Medical School presented in 2018; see my video review here if you have not already seen it
Nonopioid Pharmacologic Treatments for Chronic Pain. Am Fam Physician. 2021 May 1;103(9):561-565 Publisher: American Academy of Family Physicians; see my video review here if you have not already seen it
THE PERSISTENCE OF CATEGORY MISTAKES IN PSYCHOLOGY. Behavior and Philosophy 2001;29:203-219
Richmond LL, Zacks JM. Constructing Experience: Event Models from Perception to Action. Trends Cogn Sci. 2017 Dec;21(12):962-980
The video embedded below was also important for this breakthrough in understanding.
This video distinguishes errors from mistakes.
