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The Global Pain Crisis: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Judy Foreman
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Description for The Global Pain Crisis: What Everyone Needs to Know®
paperback. Series: What Everyone Needs to Know. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: JFFH; LNTM; MBN; MBP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140. .
Hundreds of millions around the world live in chronic pain - many in such severe pain they are disabled by it. The Institute of Medicine estimates that chronic pain costs the U.S. alone $560 to $635 billion a year in direct medical costs and lost productivity. Morphine, an effective painkiller, costs only three cents a dose, yet because of excessive regulation in many countries, it is unavailable to millions of people who need it, even at the end of life. The World Health Organization notes that in addition to the one million end-stage AIDS/HIV patients who can't get morphine and ... Read more
Hundreds of millions around the world live in chronic pain - many in such severe pain they are disabled by it. The Institute of Medicine estimates that chronic pain costs the U.S. alone $560 to $635 billion a year in direct medical costs and lost productivity. Morphine, an effective painkiller, costs only three cents a dose, yet because of excessive regulation in many countries, it is unavailable to millions of people who need it, even at the end of life. The World Health Organization notes that in addition to the one million end-stage AIDS/HIV patients who can't get morphine and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Oxford University Press United States
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
Series
What Everyone Needs to Know
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780190259235
SKU
V9780190259235
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-42
About Judy Foreman
Judy Foreman is a nationally syndicated health columnist who has won more than 50 journalism awards and whose columns have appeared regularly in the Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, Dallas Morning News and other national and international outlets. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Wellesley College, served in the Peace Corps in Brazil for three years, and received a Master's ... Read more
Reviews for The Global Pain Crisis: What Everyone Needs to Know®
"Judy is a compelling and very readable author, who takes a difficult and complex subject and makes it understandable, in 'bite-size' pieces." - Perry G. Fine, MD, Professor of Anesthesiology, University of Utah