What Medicine Misses When You Feel Ill Arya Anthony Kamyab, MBBS

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/what-medicine-misses-when-you-feel-ill-2026a1000l1r?ecd=WNL_trdalrt_pos1_ous_260629_etid8462876&uac=148436CN&impID=8462876 Medicine is often presented as the science of identifying what has gone wrong within the body. We can generally describe this act as the identification of disease, and it is the primary remit of doctors. Diseases are usually described as conditions that impair normal functioning, yet we also find definitions of disease that tempt us to use disease and illness interchangeably. This is where we ask what it truly means to be ill and whether doctors would do better shifting some of their attention away from disease to understand illness.