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Chronic Pain Management: Guidelines for Multidisciplinary Program Development
Edited by Michael E. Schatman and Alexandra Campbell
284 pp, $149.95
New York, NY, Informa Healthcare, 2007
ISBN-13: 978-1-4200-4512-3
JAMA. 2008;299(15):1842-1843.
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Instead of another interventional procedure, my surgeon told me to contact a pain management clinic to learn to handle the pain that his medical science could not heal. As he wrote the recommendation . . . I could feel a sense of defeat permeate the room. . . . As I presented my sheet to [my surgeon’s] front office staff, there was none of the usual friendly banter. . . . Eyes that were normally warm and friendly looked away as I presented my fee sheet which held that equivalent of a failing grade.
Schatman and Campbell's innovative text, Chronic Pain Management: Guidelines for Multidisciplinary Program Development, combats the disappointment patients and physicians feel by outlining effective strategies to treat chronic pain. The book opposes Rene Descartes' theory of mind-body dualism, which argues that ailments affecting the mind are entirely separate from those that afflict the body. This thinking is well-rooted in the beliefs of the general public and medical society alike: . . . [Full Text of this Article]
Devi E. Nampiaparampil, MD, Reviewer
VA Central California Health Care System
Fresno
devichechi@hotmail.com
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