When I started reading Amy Julia Becker’s new book To Be Made Well and Liuan Huska’s Hurting Yet Whole,[1] I was gripped instantly by the opening anecdotes. I had something of a reputation during my Family Medicine residency for attracting patients whose illnesses were difficult to treat due to their maladies’ psychosomatic origin or the social situations that complicated these patients’ quest for healing. Becker and Huska’s own stories instantly brought me back to those days that I spent trying to convince my patients that there was no pill (especially not one called oxycodone) to fix what years of trauma had wrought or that they had more power over their illnesses than they might have thought previously.
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