Word: paines
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reverently Dr. Brown gathered the sad records of his colleagues and contemporaries into a book, American Martyrs to Science Through the Roentgen Rays. He quoted one of his subjects: "For a description of the pain and suffering ... no language, sacred or profane, is adequate...
...even agree on how many kinds there are. But two main types are recognized. The first attacks its victims in childhood, usually between the ages of three and six, and is transmitted through the mother by a recessive gene, nearly always to boys. Treacherous in its onset (seldom giving pain as a warning) and insidious in its advance as it weakens muscle after muscle, childhood dystrophy usually proves fatal before the 20th year...
Patient Pierce was suffering from a breast cancer, and it was so far advanced that surgery was impossible. Memorial's doctors gave her drugs to ease the pain and hormones to slow the cancer's spread, thus prolonged the life they could not save. Week after week Miss Pierce went back for treatment. Once she told a clinic social worker: "I have never met with such kindness before in my life." It was plain to Memorial officials that Margaret Pierce could pay only nominal sums for her care; most of it was free. In a year she paid...
When a patient walks into a doctor's office with the vague complaint, "I've got a pain in my back," the success or failure of medical treatment often depends on the doctor's first reaction. If he begins by looking past the patient, ignoring his pain and trying to find an interesting disease process, it is probably the fault of his early training. Most medical textbooks are little better than elaborate descriptions of diseases; they consider the patient only incidentally as a vehicle of disease, and his pain only as an aid in diagnosis...
...Since pain is what usually drives a patient to a doctor, the book opens with a discussion of pain itself, followed by detailed chapters on some of its commonest forms, such as headache and lower-back pain. Dr. George Pickering, Britain's top headache authority, sadly records that only in the last 15 years has there been scientific experimentation to sort out the different kinds of headaches...