Sound like an extreme statement? Is it any more extreme than police having to get tased or shot with a bullet proof vest on during police academy? Any more extreme than soldiers having to go through for up to 13 weeks of torture at boot camp?

You can't learn about pain from a textbook. The people who wrote them have never been in pain, or were out of pain by the time they wrote them (in which cause, they suffered acute pain, not chronic pain.) How many books have you seen claiming to have the magic beans to cure back pain? The author's injury healed at around the same time they started yoga, so the yoga cured them and it'll cure you too (it's a little like saying you have a ring that wards off tigers, and when you step out on the curb and there are no tigers in downtown Miami, it doesn't mean the ring works.)

As part of their residency they should be hooked up to a machine with dials 1-10 that resemble the 1-10 pain scale they use. Even in a controlled environment, it wouldn't take long for them to realize that cognitive behavioral therapy, meditation, ibuprofen or acupuncture is objectively not enough. As part of these experiments they should be allowed a certain amount of a morphine or Dilaudid drip when they hit 7/10 pain, and then should be abruptly cut off.

They are teaching the kids coming up almost universally now, that chronic pain is an "overreaction" by the body, that you are living in fear "after an injury has already healed" and that by "dialing down" your anxiety by telling yourself you're "not in danger", you can calm the pain signals. Nevermind that connective tissue and nerves heal extremely poorly in humans and are really never the same after trauma, so NO, if you're still in pain good chance you ARE still injured or have a DEGENERATIVE disease that gets WORSE over time. Do not gaslight yourself. That's why when people get SURGERY they tell stories of how "I woke up and was not in pain for the first time in 10 years." The insane moderator at r/overcominggravity would tell you that it's just placebo and surgery didn't actually fix you, and they just imagined the pain for the next 10 years after the initial 12 weeks of acute pain was "cured".

This crap is codified into the curriculum at John Hopkins and Mayo Clinic now (all of it as part of their overarching umbrella effort to convince you you don't need opioids), and the only way to undo this and teach them a little more than a textbook understanding are voluntary medical experiments.