As a doctor, I’ve learnt that everyone is fascinated by their body: what comes out of it, what can go wrong with it and why people have the symptoms they do. But unless you go to medical school, you are never really taught about how your body works, or how it can fail. The best bit of my job as a hospital doctor (I work in neurology) is giving patients explanations and seeing them understand exactly what is wrong with them — what’s going on inside their body that’s making them feel unwell. Here are some of my more surprising favourites: Headaches: It's not the brain that hurts Your brain can’t feel pain. It receives all the information that leads to headaches from pain sensors around your body, but it has none of its own (which is why brain surgeons can operate while you are awake). This means the pain of a headache doesn’t come from your brain. Instead, the muscles in your scalp, neck and face, your sinuses (spaces behind your cheekbones and forehead), eyes, teeth, ...
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