Some Aspects of Abdominal Pain

Abstract

Based on a Talk given to the Society on 7th February, 1964.

Pain is one of the many facets of our education where we learn the basic facts and theories in the early years of our medical course only to forget much of our learning by the time we are qualified and in practice. In the clinical years we tend too often to learn sites and types of pain by memory, each type associated with one certain disease: all too rarely do we stop and ask ourselves the question “Why? “ and attempt to reconsider the basic theories in the light of the present evidence. It is a healthy attitude to challenge current teaching now and then in order to see how well it matches up to current practice and current evidence.