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The importance of good communication in treating patients' pain
Editorial   Open access   Peer reviewed

The importance of good communication in treating patients' pain

Anita Gupta
AMA journal of ethics, Vol.17(3), pp.265-267
01 Mar 2015
PMID: 25813595
url
https://doi.org/10.1001/journalofethics.2015.17.3.sect1-1503View
Published, Version of Record (VoR)Maybe Open Access (Publisher Bronze) Open

Abstract

Communication Humans Pain Management Physician-Patient Relations Pain
Friday at 4 p.m. our pain clinic phone rang; it was the daughter of one of my patients, crying and telling me that her mother had died following a grueling course of treatment only a year before for widely metastatic breast cancer. The daughter had called me to share the news, saying she was truly grateful for all of the care I had given during her mother’s struggle with intractable cancer pain. [1st paragraph]

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