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Current Pain and Headache Reports
Published in: Current Pain and Headache Reports 1/2012

01-02-2012 | Invited Commentary

Ethical Challenges and Interventional Pain Medicine

Authors: Gary J. Brenner, Karsten Kueppenbender, Jianren Mao, Jeffrey Spike

Published in: Current Pain and Headache Reports | Issue 1/2012

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“The relief of suffering and the cure of disease must be seen as twin obligations of a medical profession that is truly dedicated to the care of the sick. Physicians’ failure to understand the nature of suffering can result in medical intervention that (though technically adequate) not only fails to relieve suffering but becomes a source of suffering itself.”
—Eric J. Cassel [1]
We must abandon those orientations that treat pain as an object independently of the being that it affects.
—Giordano and Schatman [2]
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Metadata
Title
Ethical Challenges and Interventional Pain Medicine
Authors
Gary J. Brenner
Karsten Kueppenbender
Jianren Mao
Jeffrey Spike
Publication date
01-02-2012
Publisher
Current Science Inc.
Published in
Current Pain and Headache Reports / Issue 1/2012
Print ISSN: 1531-3433
Electronic ISSN: 1534-3081
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11916-011-0242-y

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