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 Steadman explained that when he would meet a new patient for the first time, he would ask them a simple question: “What happened?” Over the years, he began to notice that people were less prone to give him physical reasons for the accident, and more likely to offer him psychological explanations for how they became injured.

He heard less, “I was skiing along and hit a patch of ice that caused me to fall and my leg bent backwards. That’s when I heard a pop.” Instead, his patients’ explanations were more often along the lines of, “My wife and I were arguing because I wanted to hit the slopes and she wanted me to wait another thirty minutes for her to get ready. I told her I was going to make one quick run and then meet her at Lionshead in one hour. So, I hurried up the mountain and flew down the hill to make sure I met her on time and that’s when I fell awkwardly and heard a pop.”