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- Published on: 6 March 2015
- Published on: 23 February 2015
- Published on: 6 March 2015Communicating Pain and Suffering: The PENS Acronym.Show More
Communicating Pain and Suffering: The PENS Acronym.
We would like to thank the authors of this study both for reminding us of what is our primary objective as healthcare providers -- to relieve pain and suffering; and for providing the evidence that suggests that we often are failing in this objective. As medical crewmembers in helicopter EMS, we appreciate the need to elicit accurately, and to relay effective...
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None declared. - Published on: 23 February 2015Dear Mr. Brody (correct salutation?)Show More
Your article on ED patients' suffering came to me only this week through Medscape.com. I would like to thank you for your analysis and for bringing this topic to the surface.
I have been waiting thirty years for this concept to be treated in the scientific literature. When I started practice in 1983 in a busy urban academic Emergency Department in Baltimore, Maryland, and for the next twenty-five years, THIS was...
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