From rising health care costs to an increase in the number of Americans who lack health insurance coverage, there are many health care issues that are attracting considerable attention in Congress. However, some say there’s one key dimension that fails to receive sufficient notice: the adequacy of the allied health care work force. Apart from doctors, nurses and pharmacists, these…
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Pain Relief The Pain Pandemic
PAIN RELIEF & THE PAIN PANDEMIC “The cry of mankind is not for pleasure but release from pain.” Goethe Pain can be a life saving bodily defense. To be born with the inability to feel pain assures early death, but in the vast, ordinary middle ground of living – between first perception and life threat – the hope for pain…