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Lessons You Only Learn the Hard Way
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Lessons You Only Learn the Hard Way

What People in Pain Know That the Rest of Us Don’t

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Ben Caplan, MD
May 13, 2025
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💬 Dr C: I’ve spent many years walking alongside people in pain, as a family physician. What continues to astonish me is not just how they suffer, but how they grow—and what they teach. This reflection is a meditation on the quiet insights that tend to arrive long after the ache.

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