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Podcast: Under the Influence with Martin Harvey
Episode: Shituation: "I feel like I'm ok to leave it longer"
Description: When patients feel good, things get weird.John asked a great question in the AP group: after a holiday break, patients came back happy, pain-free, and wanting to stretch out visits. Not because they were disengaging, but because they were doing well.Which is harder to handle than pain.Here’s the problem beneath the problem:Feeling good reinforces Pain logic.Pain logic says: “If I feel fine, I don’t need care.”We break the situation down into five ideas:• Beliefs drive behaviour“I’ve felt fine” isn...