There is always a gap between when a symptom begins and when it is “medically explained.” It is unreasonable to expect that doctors, who are fallible human beings doing a difficult job, can close this gap instantaneously—and, given that medical knowledge is, and probably always will be, incomplete, they may at times not be able to close it at all. But it shouldn’t be unreasonable to expect that, during this period of uncertainty, the benefit of the doubt be given to the patient, the default assumption be that their symptoms are real, their description of what they are feeling in their own
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