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Dates: during 1980-1989
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John Bonica, 67, onetime professional wrestler and a prime mover in establishing the study of pain as a science: "If I wasn't as busy as I am, I would be a completely disabled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Pain Relief's Founding Father | 6/11/1984 | See Source »

Those millions of Americans who suffer from chronic pain have cause to be thankful for Bonica's tenacity. He has helped make much of the medical profession aware of both the compassion and the specialized approach needed to deal with the agony of pain. Twenty-three years ago he helped found the University of Washington Medical Center's Clinical Pain Service, in Seattle, which has be come a model for similar clinics across the country. Here, sufferers from chronic pain can be examined by medical specialists in a variety of fields, from orthopedics to psychiatry, in an attempt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Pain Relief's Founding Father | 6/11/1984 | See Source »

...spoke of reading her hospital chart and realizing that she had been enduring needless suffering 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Pain Relief's Founding Father | 6/11/1984 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Pain Relief's Founding Father | 6/11/1984 | See Source »

Traditionally, pain therapy had not been regarded as an area for 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Pain Relief's Founding Father | 6/11/1984 | See Source »

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