Abstract
In clinical medicine we sometimes deal with patients with unexplained somatic complaints. In a 45-year-old woman with multiple somatic complaints, 2 years of medical examinations in search of a disease diagnosis cost almost 250,000 shekels (about $84,000). The differential diagnosis between somatization, hypochondriasis and psychosomatic pain, and the reasons why physicians are tempted to participate in the "investigation dance" are presented.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 19-22 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | Harefuah |
| Volume | 130 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| State | Published - 1 Jan 1996 |