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Needless suffering : how society fails those with chronic pain /
Needless Suffering offers a sociological examination of a complex medical problem: chronic pain and the inability of doctors and other health professionals to understand and manage it in their patients. People in pain, writes Dr. David Nagel, are the poor of the medical world. Like the poor, they ar...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lebanon, NH :
ForeEdge, an imprint of University Press of New England,
[2016]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Prologue : The forest for the trees
- Part one : poor man, pained man. A young doctor transformed by a man in pain
- What is pain? its neurophysiology and psychology : chasing two moving targets
- You do have to suffer ... just not as much as we make you
- Part two : The cast of characters. The patient : making lemonade when stuck with a lemon
- Family, friends, and community
- The physician and the pain patient : poorly equipped for the role?
- Regulatory agencies and pain management : overregulation breeds underregulation
- The business of health care : whose bottom line are we treating?
- The workplace and entitlements : creating "inability" out of "disability"
- Health and disability insurance : the law of unintended consequences
- The legal system : disorder in the court!
- What it means to "do no harm" : is there a safe way to medicate pain?
- Opiates and opioids
- Cannabinoids and pain : reefer madness or compassionate care?
- Health-care reform and chronic pain : we all have a role to play
- Epilogue : Living in the forest.