Word: paines
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...Mystery of Pain Why does the same joint problem make one person suffer terribly while another has no pain at all? There are a few clues that might solve this puzzle
...accused with a twinkle. Now we got into it: Any better? You've been living in my country all this time and you haven't learned any English? A lively debate on the merits of a bilingual society gave way to a cortisone shot for the same wrist pain. I had our therapists make her a splint and said 'adios'. I liked Rosa...
...DeQuervains is the most common cause of pain on the thumb-side of the wrist. It's a tendon irritation caused by friction. If it continues to be a problem despite pills, therapy, splints and shots there is a small and simple surgical procedure that cures it. I do the operation under local anesthesia, and because there's a tourniquet with a timer on during the case I can tell you how long it takes: about ten minutes. She understood the explanation and opted for the surgery. Then we went next door...
...next cubicle was a woman more like the old Rosa - no job, no husband. She had been injected and splinted and was still in pain - though less, I felt, than Rosa. I gave the explanation in Spanish with help from my bilingual resident...
This brought elation - a mystery solved, a case cracked - and then screams of pain. Al-Ayeri was in the Saudi group that had been released. They had had him. The Saudis...