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"No medical school has a pain curriculum..."
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John BonicaIt is... with perfect timing that Dr. Dermot Fitzgibbon... with the co — John Bonica
"It is... with perfect timing that Dr. Dermot Fitzgibbon... with the collaboration of Dr. John D. Loeser... have provided us with a comprehensive interdisciplinary, patient-centered, guide to the assessment, diagnosis, and management of cancer pain. With a combined experience of over 50 years in pain management and in the spirit of Dr. John Bonica, both Drs, Fitzgibbon and Loeser have composed a detailed treatise that covers not only pain (with a lower case p) as a symptom, but also Pain (with a capital P), as a disease, with all its physiologic, pathologic, emotional, social, and existential dimensions."
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John Joseph Bonica was a Sicilian American anesthesiologist and professional wrestler known as the founding father of the discipline of pain medicine.
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"Some fragmentation of the principles espoused by Dr. Bonica more than forty years ago has occurred, and unidisciplinary "pain clinics" have become commonplace."
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"In 1946, Dr. John Bonica began the first multidisciplinary pain center in Tacoma, Washington, based out of a private practice. It arose from his recognition that chronic pain was optimally treated by a team of specialists. For the first time, patients suffering pain were routinely evaluated by different medical specialties, physical therapists, and psychiatrists. ...Other multidisciplinary pain programs began to emerge around the country, carrying forward the original Bonica model."
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"Pain—one of the most pressing issues of out time."
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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."
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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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