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“If migraine patients have a common and legitimate second complaint besides their migraines, it is that they have not been listened to by physicians. Looked at, investigated, drugged, charged, but not listened to.”

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Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down in the mind before you reach eighteen.

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