03 May 2017

Blast from the past: Addiction fears and palliative care

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 Recalled without comment... November 25, 2003 The Delicate Balance Of Pain and Addiction By BARRY MEIER Over the past two decades, co...
17 February 2017

Stoics on pain

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Brennan describes the Stoic conception of pain as one of the four basic kinds of emotion: Pain is an opinion that some present thing is ...
07 February 2017

Why so little attention to physical evil?

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One hypothesis on why Medieval and other early writers ignore pain to a large degree: In these centuries...prior to the development of med...
04 January 2017

Doonsbury on pain medication

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19 November 2016

Abnormal sensory states

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From the IASP, a helpful summary of some of the terms which describe altered thresholds, responses, and perceptions of pain: Allodynia : l...
05 October 2016

More on pain rating scales, xkcd weighs in

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Following up on Hyperbole and a Half's critique of the Wong-Baker Scale, xkcd weighs in on anchors of common assessment scales. His m...
10 August 2016

Catrastrophizing in pain paper

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Blackwell Synergy - Pain Medicine, OnlineEarly Articles (Article Abstract) Jo Nijs PhD, Karen Van de Putte MSc, Fred Louckx PhD, Steve...
28 May 2016

The Almost Discovery Of Anesthesia : NPR

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Here's an NPR story on the discovery of nitrous oxide. The transcript and podcast are here: No, Thank You; We Like Pain: The Almost Di...
07 March 2016

Placebo ethics related papers

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ScienceDirect - Pain : Don’t ask, Don’t tell? Revealing placebo responses to research participants and patients An NIMH perspective on...
14 December 2015

Blast from the past

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From Time Magazine Ouch! Monday, Jan. 01, 1945 People like Dickens' Mrs. Gummidge, who claim they "feel more than other peop...
20 September 2015

NYT on chronic pain

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December 16, 2001 Pain, the Disease By MELANIE THERNSTROM A modern chronicler of hell might look to the lives of chronic-pain patients ...
06 June 2015

Pain proverbs

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Neque porro quisquam est qui dolorem ipsum quia dolor sit amet, consectetur, adipisci velit . . . ("There is no one who loves pain itse...
04 February 2015

Hospice and opioids paper

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Blackwell Synergy - Pain Medicine, Volume 7 Issue 4 Page 320-329, July/August 2006 (Article Abstract) Toward Evidence-Based Prescribing...
06 January 2015

Religion and sickle cell pain

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Title:Religiosity/spirituality and pain in patients with sickle cell disease.(Psychology and Behavioral Sciences (193))(Brief article). Au...
17 December 2014

The Clinical Art of Pain Medicine: Balancing Evidence, Experience, Ethics, and Policy

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Blackwell Synergy - Pain Medicine, Volume 6 Issue 4 Page 277-279, July 2005 (Full Text) The Clinical Art of Pain Medicine: Balancing Evi...
02 December 2014

More links: Racial and ethnic disparities in pain

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Blackwell Synergy - Pain Medicine, Volume 6 Issue 1 Page 5-10, January 2005 (Article Abstract) Pain Medicine Volume 6 Issue 1 Page 5-10...
21 November 2014

Some links: Racial and ethnic disparities in pain

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Race, Ethnicity, and Pain Treatment: Striving to Understand the Causes and Solutions to the Disparities in Pain Treatment Vence L. Bonha...
30 June 2014

Please help with a study on pain patient narratives

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If you have a few minutes, I would greatly appreciate your help with a research project I am involved in. We need people to fill out an onli...
31 May 2014

Pain and patience

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Eighteenth Century Collections Online -- Search Display Dodsley, Robert. Pain and patience. A poem. By R. Dodsley. London, 1742 [1743]...
30 March 2014

Pain Patient's Bill of Rights (CA)

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SB 402 Health: opiate drugs. BILL NUMBER: SB 402 CHAPTERED 10/10/97 BILL TEXT CHAPTER 839 FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE OCTOBER 10, 1...
03 March 2014

More Augustine on privation

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From Against the Epistle of Manichaeus For who can doubt that the whole of that which is called evil is nothing else than corruption? Dif...
21 October 2013

Symptom Clusters: Pain, Depression, and Fatigue

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JNCI Monographs 2004 2004(32):119-123; doi:10.1093/jncimonographs/lgh028 Abstract There is not yet sufficient evidence-based experience...