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...because her doctors had given her inadequate doses of pain-killing drugs. "I've seen patients and I've cried," he admits. "It stresses me emotionally to see a patient in severe pain who could be relieved and is not." And yet, according to his asso ciates, Bonica never discusses his own pain. Says Bill Fordyce, a psychologist at the Seattle clinic: "He's a tough...
...need for a radical new approach to the treatment of pain became obvious to Bonica while serving as chief of anesthesiology at Fort Lewis, near Tacoma, during World...
...specialists, and the treatment of choice was drugs, usually morphine. But combat produced a record number of patients with severe trauma. The war in the Pacific alone regularly filled the 7,700 beds at the military hospital at Fort Lewis with troops enduring amputations, nerve injuries and multiple fractures. Bonica became responsible for finding ways of alleviating their suffering...
...consulting with other doctors: internists, neurosurgeons and, for some cases, dentists. He recalls: "There was no one else in the area doing pain work. I realized I didn't know anything about pain. There was little information available, and that was scattered throughout the medical literature." Out of Bonica's experiences with the wounded came his theory that the treatment of pain must borrow from a number of medical specialties...