Tuesday, September 1, 2015
When the body is sick patient, the doctor can feel the same reaction
Suffering from a rare disease, the doctor can feel the physical pain suffered by patients. That's because Salinas diagnosed with mirror-touch synesthesia.
Men who worked as a neurologist was now working at Massachusetts General Hospital. Salinas said that the conditions it had suffered since childhood.
Whenever someone else to hug him, he will feel what is suffered by that person. And one day, he never embraced the man hit in an accident, her body suddenly felt uncomfortable.
"When I touched their bodies, I feel it in my body. It was exactly like a mirror," he explained.
Although he did not really feel pain with the same intensity, she admitted it was a little bothered her condition. One day, when he was watching a video of amputation in medical school, he felt as if his own arm was cut.
"It was very real," he said. "I can feel his blood."
Mirror-touch synesthesia is a very rare condition. In fact only one of the two percent of the human population in the world that has it.
This condition is associated with the activity of mirror neurons - cells that are activated when the body perform an action. This rare condition is often a burden for those who have it.
"Sensations that make those who have it often develop anxiety problems and depression," said Salinas. But for him, the condition becomes an advantage in building a good relationship with the patient.
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