Word: paines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Senior Correspondent Ruth Mehrtens Calvin, who has long specialized in reporting for TIME on behavior, amassed a collection of complaints by patients about pain and its treatment. "About the time the pile got to be a foot high," she recalls, "I came across an editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine called 'The Quality of Mercy,' which showed growing medical concern about this problem." At that point she suggested that TIME do a major story on pain...
...investigator of the pain phenomenon was San Francisco Correspondent Dick Thompson. Says he: "One of the strange things about pain is the mind's refusal to keep old distress in focus. In my younger days, a truck hit my car and I spent nine months in an itchy body cast, but I no longer have painful, or even unpleasant, memories of the event." Thompson, in reporting the cover story, was especially impressed by Seattle Anesthesiologist John Bonica, an immigrant and former circus strongman who went on to become a pioneer in the field of pain alleviation...
Galvin, who interviewed dozens of specialists on pain, says, "The subject was even more absorbing than I could have imagined. When I began interviewing Dr. Kathleen Foley, president of the American Pain Society, I asked her what she looks for in a research fellow. She answered with one word...
...brains. Pain, one of the most complicated sensations processed by the central nervous system, is now getting the attention of many remarkable brains like Dr. Foley...
That is how I explain to myself today, in a far different time, what remains in memory of having lived the ecstatic yet hopeless frenzy of the 1960s. To the normal trauma of adolescence--the pain of being stood up, of breaking up, of being alone--was added the rejection of self and future. I remember trying, for the first time, to live with personal failure. I could not get papers finished before the extensions expired or even begin the reading before the final exam. Others were elected to Phi Beta Kappa, awarded scholarships, admitted to graduate school...