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Her reasoning, she says, rests on the “lack of evidence for an organic disease.”

Any claim that a person should be able to meditate away their neurochemical imbalances or organic disease states — what are these societal-sized problems on an individual level — is just ridiculous.

How the Diagnosis Was Made: Given all the testing that the patient had had, Dr. Grothe, the doctor who saw her at the Mayo Clinic, was leaning toward functional bowel disease — as opposed to organic disease — early on in her thinking.

Disorders of Rhythm of the Heart’s Action.—Under this heading may be grouped a number of conditions to which the name “functional affections of the heart” has sometimes been applied, inasmuch as the disturbances in question cannot usually be attributed to definite organic disease of the heart.

I looked for signs of organic disease.