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A doctor’s appointment should be a simple, respectful exchange: you explain what you feel, the doctor listens, and together you try to understand what is going on. But sometimes it becomes something else, it becomes the perfect stage for a small performance of status. Yesterday’s doctor didn’t really listen. “This, I have never heard in 25 years,” he said, not to open the conversation, but to end it. It reminded me of Hume’s Principle of the Uniformity of Nature : the assumpt

I just spent several days in a hospital’s research unit. My roommate was a caucasian woman admitted for suspected fibromyalgia. Her...