Over the past few days, tropical storm Ana has affected hundreds of thousands of people across Southern Africa. The storm caused heavy rains and flooding in Madagascar and Mozambique and left most of Zimbabwe without power over the recent days. It comes on the back of unprecedented rainfall and flooding in neighboring Zambia.
they are overlaid. so it is really impossible for us to disassociate mind-body. and in fact when we talk about the emotional, psychological aspects of pain, we re really talking about an underlying neurobiology that leads to the overall gestalt that our patients complain about. dr. pizzo? thank you. well, i certainly agree and appreciate that there is a broad array of contributing factors as has been stated, i think it is also important for us to be very sensitive to the words we use and the way that they re received. there is today a significant amount of perception felt by those suffering from chronic pain, and in fact those called to serve on behalf of patients that there is a significant amount of, quote, emotional contribution. and i think while there is no doubt that our emotions contribute to our physiology, i think that we have much work to do to look at our approach to pain, just as we do other neurological and psychiatric illnesses from a physiological perspecti