Word: paines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Pain Relief...
...Editors: Your article on chronic pain [MEDICINE, June 11] touched on the basic ingredient that we who try to alleviate pain have found to be essential: compassion. Richard M. Linchitz, M.D. Medical Director Pain Alleviation Center Roslyn...
...have suffered constant pain for almost a decade. You put in a nutshell the feeling and emotions I can only convey, and even then with difficulty, to my doctors, my family and my friends. Most people cannot understand perpetual pain because they have not felt it. Juan R. Freudenthal Wellesley, Mass...
...sorry there was little mention of the nurse's role in dealing with pain. In caring for patients, nurses have sought alternative methods to drugs for easing suffering. We follow the advice of Margo McCaffery, the pain pioneer, who said, "Pain is whatever the person experiencing it says it is, and exists whenever he or she says it exists." Gina Holmes Manhattan Beach, Calif...
...told two years ago after disc-removal surgery that nothing could be done to alleviate my agony. Three weeks as an inpatient at St. Louis University's Pain Management Program taught me how to live with my pain through such methods as biofeedback, physical therapy, exercise and relaxation. I now attend biweekly meetings of the local chapter of Chronic Pain Outreach, a nonprofit support group that provides speakers who help us cope with our problems. Robert C. Lucas Brentwood...