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Jay Rockefeller: Can people sometimes declare to you that they have pain, but what you know is that somehow it is in their--not…

On the recordMarch 21, 2012
Can people sometimes declare to you that they have pain, but what you know is that somehow it is in their--not imagination, but they have decided they have pain because perhaps they had pain a week ago...
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Jay Rockefeller
Democratic · West Virginia

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Rockefeller questions the authenticity of reported pain in patients.

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