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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.

— 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.

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