Nerves that zing: back pain and neuropathy

In this Clinical Connections, an unusual internal medicine physician talks about back pain that doesn't show up on imaging, and the neuropathy that drives many people half crazy in later life.

We’ve featured posts by Mary Braun Bates, MD before. She’s an internal medicine physician in New Hampshire who writes on Substack as Doctoring Unpacked. She’s also board certified in palliative care and hospice, and there’s nothing like those two specialties to humble anyone in healthcare about what we thought we knew: she doesn’t get confused about the…