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      Hardcover The Truth about Chronic Pain: Patients and Professionals on How to Face It, Understand It, Overcome It Book
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      ISBN: 0465071384

      ISBN13: 9780465071388

      The Truth About Chronic Pain: Patients And Professionals On How To Face It, Understand It, Overcome It

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      "It's all in your head." "Learn to bear it." "That drug will make you a junkie." For the more than seventy-five million Americans affected by chronic pain, these are fighting words. Despite extraordinary medical progress in recent years, millions of people, debilitated by the pain of incurable cancer, crippling arthritis, unremitting headaches, and a host of degenerative disorders, continue to suffer needlessly. Here, in their own words, are the stories of more than forty people whose lives are dictated by pain--patients, healthcare professionals, ethicists, social commentators, and scientists--shining a powerful searchlight on America's most misunderstood health problem. The Truth About Chronic Pain reveals that pain is often ignored or under-treated due to widespread beliefs that it is a sign of weakness or unfounded fears that properly administered painkillers will cause addiction. As bureaucrats, doctors, and pharmacists become combatants in the War on Drugs, people in pain too often become unforeseen casualties. The Truth About Chronic Pain provides what pain-sufferers need just as keenly as physical relief: the knowledge that they are not alone. The voices on these pages are an eloquent testament to individual courage and a powerful plea to medical institutions, political leaders, and insurance companies to implement effective solutions to the problem of pain. This description may be from another edition of this product.

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      The Truth About Chronic Pain by Rosenfeld

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      This work documents specific instances of how people get intochronic pain cycles and the actions required to manage these conditions over the long term. There are many importantinterviews with both patients and physicians which documenttypical experiences and valuable corrective steps to combatpain on an ongoing basis. This work would be a valuableaddition to any personal medical library.

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      should be required reading in med. school

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      I wish every doctor, psychiatrist and psychologist would read this amazing work. It should be a required text for medical school students. It is a painfully honest account of the medical profession and society's view of the chronic pain patient. Arthur and Isodore seem to have entered my mind and viewed the world as I see it.

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      Understanding the World of Pain

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      Insightful, Inspiring, Important. Whether or not you suffer from chronic pain, this book is a must read and it is truly accessible to a very wide audience. As we don't yet have a cure to offer those who suffer, understanding the pain will have to do. Mr. Rosenfeld's book is the ultimate handbook for this daunting task. After dividing the book into 3 parts, patients (that's me), caregivers and thinkers, it was amazing to...

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      Demystifing and comforting

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      "The Truth About..." makes clear how many live in pain and just how pervasive the matter is. In short, Rosenfeld's work clearly and concisely explains the issues while demystifying a series of complex problems.While there are many philosophical and religious dimensions involved, it's equally amazing to hear how so many personal and divergent points of view all lead to the same bottom line: that none of us should ever have...

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      Insightful and Controversial

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      I found the book incredibly insighful and inspiring. The interview format revealed thoughful answers to provacative questions. I feel better informed and now better prepared to approach the topic with my caregiver in order to find an answer to my own chronic pain. I highly reccomend this book to everyone...pain sufferer or not. The ideas and insight and personal stories are mind expanding and important!

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