Opinion: The Voice of the Chronic Pain Patient Is Not Being Heard

We are amazed at the sheer ignorance of uncaring and uninformed health care providers who have never experienced intractable, unrelenting, 24/7 pain: Pain that shatters your life, steals your career sometimes along with spouses and family, pain that definitely alters, if not destroys hopes and dreams – and tragically for some who could no longer cope with the magnitude of loss and unimaginable pain – chose to end their very lives. The uninformed public often heaps all pain patients into one giant category, for which they are not qualified to assess.

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