Artikkel som nevner mye av problemen rundt behandling av f.eks. ikke-spesifikke ryggplager, IBS eller firbomyalgi. Dette er plager det ikke er noe tydelig årsak-virkning forhold, som ikke kan forklares med et molekyl eller anatomisk utgangspunkt som er felles for alle som har disse plagene, og hvor det ikke er noe klart skille mellom kropp og sinn.

https://raniblogsaboutcausation.wordpress.com/2014/08/14/when-a-cause-cannot-be-found/

This is not a small problem in medicine. By some estimates, such unexplained conditions amount to 30 percent of all symptoms reported to doctors, and they are linked to a 20-50% increase in outpatient costs and a 30% increase in hospitalisation.

This is, basically, what evidence based medicine means: statistical evidence from population studies are applied directly to a patient. This means that each patient is treated as a statistical average, not as a unique individual.

Rather than being dismissed as marginal, therefore, these unexplained conditions should be taken as exemplary for understanding health and disease in general.