"During this time of a year or more, sufferers have probably been to departments of both internal and external medicine and undergone all sorts of diagnostic tests and have failed to find the cause of their illness." He says that from the point of view of costs of treatment, this sort of spending is not only extremely wasteful, but the pain that the patient has to endure is even harder to estimate.
「這一年多的時間裡，病患可能找遍內外科、做過各種儀器診斷，還是找不出病因」，他說，從直接的醫藥成本角度來看，這種消耗、浪費不但非常大；病人受的苦痛折磨更很難估算。