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What the hell kind of conclusion can you come to there? The most important thing, from the patient's perspective, they don't talk about.

— John Bonica

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The proper management of pain remains, after all, the most important obligation, the main objective, and the crowning achievement of every physician.

The Management of Pain (1954)

Pain—one of the most pressing issues of out time.

No medical school has a pain curriculum...

If I wasn't as busy as I am... I would be a completely disabled guy.

Nearly one-third of the population has persistent or recurrent chronic pain—and of those, one-half to two-thirds are either partially or totally disabled for periods of days, weeks, or months, and sometimes permanently.

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