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...pain-treatment service came about because Berde and colleague Navil Sethna, faced with patients who had seemingly intractable problems, devised novel solutions, and because other doctors began to seek them out. One of their first cases was an 18-year-old boy with cancer. Suddenly, the boy's pain had spun out of control. "In three days he went from no morphine to 400 milligrams an hour, which is a pretty industrial dose," says Berde. "A normal amount might be 3 milligrams an hour...