Haider Warraich: Embracing the Complexity of Pain

Everything Happens with Kate Bowler

Kate Bowler

Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 5.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

When a random weight-lifting accident left cardiologist Dr. Haider Warraich in chronic pain, he went from being a physician to being a patient in one moment. His experience of chronic pain gives him a hard won insight as he reexamines how we understand and treat pain. In this conversation, Kate and Haider discuss: the difference between pain and suffering why pain might be subjective, yet should be taken just as seriously (and perhaps invites doctors to not just treat blood work or an x-ray, but the patient in front of them) why we should erase the arbitrary demarkations between mind and body when it comes to understanding and treating chronic pain the value of accepting the reality of pain as a fundamental truth of being human (and why that doesn’t mean “it’s all in your head”) If you are someone (or loves someone) who suffers from chronic pain, this episode is for you. Haider talks with such gentleness about when your pain isn’t believed and how doctors can do a better job at treating their patients in pain. *** Find Kate on Instagram or Facebook or Twitter. Be sure to subscribe to our weekly email for bits of wisdom, prayers, free downloads, and more. No Cure for Being Human (And Other Truths I Need to Hear) is now available wherever books are sold. Order your copy, today. Introducing, GOOD ENOUGH: 40ish Devotionals for a Life of Imperfection. Available wherever books are sold. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0	You've probably heard the saying,
0:02.1	what doesn't kill you makes you stronger.
0:04.6	But can we take that one back to the drawing board?
0:08.0	Like my friend, Kristen Howard,
0:09.7	and said during my podcast episode with her,
0:12.7	what doesn't kill you will give you a raging anxiety disorder?
0:16.4	Or maybe this one that I joyfully had printed on a t-shirt
0:20.1	that I wore during a 5K recently.
0:22.6	What doesn't kill you might try again tomorrow.
0:25.6	And on that note, it's probably a good time to tell you
0:28.5	that my name is Kate Boehler, and this is Everything Happens.
0:33.2	A podcast where we get to rewrite the terrible cultural scripts
0:37.5	we've been given.
0:38.8	Like, no pain, no gain.
0:41.6	Or use the pain as fuel to keep going.
0:45.9	Or the pain you feel today will be the strength you feel tomorrow.
0:51.0	Really?
0:52.3	Try telling that to someone in chronic pain.
0:56.1	Someone who's fibromyalgia or overwhelming fatigue
1:00.1	or debilitating migraines keeps them locked out from the life
1:04.0	they once loved.
1:06.0	Or to someone who loves the person for whom pain has interrupted
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