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When Traditional Healing Practices Work Despite Medical Skepticism

I've been doing qigong every morning for two years and my chronic pain is gone but my doctor says there's no scientific basis for it working. I feel crazy for believing in something I can't explain.

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Direct experience of healing can conflict with cultural frameworks for what counts as legitimate knowledge.

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