Validate Your Pain!: Exposing the Chronic Pain Cover-Up - Couverture souple

Chino PhD, Allan F.; Davis MD, Corinne Dille

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0970844492 ISBN 13 : 9780970844491

Editeur : DC Press, 2010

Synopsis

Chronic pain is the number one complaint heard by physicians across our nation. From low back to the pain of cancer, from the highly publicized fibromyalgia to chronic fatique syndrome, and from the common headache to bursitis...pain is something all Americans can relate to. However, in the highly regulated world of healthcare, are American's getting their collective monies worth of attention and care for their pain complaints. The authors feel the answer is generally, NO. How many of us have said, Nobody takes my pain seriously, or They say I shouldn't be hurting and that it's all in my head. How often are patients sent off to see psychologists or psychiatrists when physicians hit the wall and are unable to treat a patient's pain? What the authors want you to know is that there is a dirty little secret inside the healthcare system that, through ignorance, arrogance, and greed, perrates tremendous injustice upon individuals suffering with chronic pain. And, like the dirtly little secret, some doctors and insurance companies work hard to sweep patients with chornic pain under the rug. The problem has nothing to do with the latest approaches to diagnosis and treatment. It has nothing to do with discovering a way to ease human suffering and restore quality of life. Modern medicine already knows how to do that. Rather it has to do with something far more basic: compassion and the true desire to help. There are forces at work which, under the guise of healthcare, actively undermine efforts to help people with pain. Validate Your Pain exposes those secrets and arms the reader with information needed to maneuver through the healthcare minefields -- so they can get the help they deserve.

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À propos des auteurs

Allan Chino, Ph.D. is board certified in Clinical Health Psychology and is president of the American Academy of Clinical Health Psychology. He conducts biobehavioral research in fibromyalgia and practices pain management in Oregon. He has set up and directed two CARF-accredited hospital-based pain rehab programs in California and a private practice in Las Vegas. Corinne Dille Davis, M.D. is board certified in Pain Medicine, Physical Medicine and Rehab, and Electrodiagnostic Medicine. She practices in Las Vegas and Minnesota. In addition, she serves on the Prescription Controlled Substance Abuse Task Force for Nevada.

Corinne Dille Davis, M.D. is board certified in Pain Medicine, Physical Medicine and Rehab, and Electrodiagnostic Medicine. She practices in Las Vegas and Minnesota. In addition, she serves on the Prescription Controlled Substance Abuse Task Force for Nevada.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: DC Press
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0970844492
• ISBN 13: 9780970844491
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 388
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible