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Some physicians, patients, and policy makers conceive of illness in purely biologic terms. According to this view, social, economic, and legal forces are irrelevant to symptoms and behavior; only tissue injury and healing matter. However, in this issue of the Journal, Cassidy and his colleagues report that changes in a tort system of compensation for traffic injuries can dramatically change the numbers and duration of insurance claims for whiplash injury.¹ This finding, along with similar observations in other studies, suggests that external factors have an important influence on the behavior of patients that is independent of biologic factors. Though . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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