Yet despite this record, each generation of medical practitioners has remained remarkably confident in the theories and technologies of the current era, treating what is currently “medically unexplained” as if it is, in fact, unexplainable—even to a doctor in the future with greater knowledge and more precise tests. In treating “medically unexplained symptoms” as if it is a unified condition, Jutel points out, medicine resorts to “creating a catch-all diagnostic category in which it can place the unexplained.” And in attributing a psychogenic cause to “medically unexplained symptoms,” medicine
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