
222. Suzanne O’Sullivan on psychosomatic disorders and other mystery illnesses
The Michael Shermer Show
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Neurology
I studied medicine because i was od at science, and the when i went to a school that didn't have a lot of options, so i chose medicine for that reason. But now i work very often with disorders that might once have been classed more in thi psychiatric realm. So i work with people who have m psychosematic conditions, so in particular, seizures that are happening for a more of a psychological cause than m because of brain disease. I got interested in that out of pure necessity. When i had finished all the junior doctor training, and i suddenly was responsible for people who suffered in that way,. You know, the way medical training works is that you could actually be
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