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Listening to the silence of pain narratives: A qualitative study of epistemic injustice in patient-clinician communication on medically unexplained chronic pain in Japan.
Tsuyoshi Okuhara, Hiroko Okada, Rie Yokota, Yumi Kagawa
Published: 202610.1016/j.pec.2025.109402
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to explore how the narrative identities of patients with medically unexplained chronic pain change over time following repeated dismissal of their attempts to communicate their pain. METHODS: We conducted a narrative analy…
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