Word: clinically
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...brought remarkable advances in the treatment and in some cases the elimination of disease, doctors' understanding of pain is just beginning to emerge from the dark ages. "Pain is the weak link in modern medicine," says Dr. Josef Wang, director of the pain center at the Mayo Clinic. To begin with, medical students receive only the scantest introduction to the subject. A 1983 survey by Bonica of 17 standard textbooks on surgery, medicine and cancer found that only 54 pages out of a total of 22,000 provided information about pain; half of the books did not discuss...
...combining the skills of doctors in many disciplines to deal with pain was pioneered by Bonica at the University of Washington Medical Center's Clinical Pain Service in Seattle (see box). Treatment at a pain clinic begins with a thorough workup, including physical, psychological, neurologic, orthopedic, radiologic and laboratory examinations. If a physical problem is detected-a tumor pressing on a nerve, a slipped disc-surgery or some other appropriate treatment will be recommended...
However, in general, pain clinic patients have less concrete causes for their suffering. For them, the first step often is to be weaned from whatever narcotics they have been taking for relief, substituting methadone if necessary and offering psychological counseling. Doctors tend to frown upon the use of narcotics and muscle relaxants like Valium because they may add to a pain sufferer's debilitation...
...Gorky, the industrial city to which he was exiled in 1980. French Communist Party Chief Georges Marchais said that sources "at the highest level" had implied to him that Sakharov, who has a history of heart disease, was in "satisfactory" health and under regular observation at a Gorky clinic. Later the Soviet Ambassador to France told Socialist Party Leader Lionel Jospin that Bonner and Sakharov were well and in their Gorky apartment. Neither account persuaded Tatyana Yankelevich, Bonner's daughter by her first marriage. Said she: "We can not exclude the possibility that Sakharov is no longer alive...
DECLARED DEAD. Helen Vorhees Brach, reclusive widow of Chicago Candy Tycoon Frank Brach and heir to the E.J. Brach & Sons candy company fortune, who vanished seven years ago at age 66 after a checkup at the Mayo Clinic; as of Feb. 17, 1977, the last day she was known to be alive; in Chicago. Most of the estimated $45 million estate will go to hospitals, churches and animal-welfare groups, but her will also includes a $50,000 annuity to John Matlick, 54, her longtime houseman and chauffeur, who was originally a suspect, though no evidence ever directly linked...