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Article: Pain and Pain Management
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- Macmillan Encyclopedia of Death and Dying
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Pain and Pain Management
In June 2001 a California jury awarded $1.5 million to the family of a terminally ill eighty-five-year-old man, finding the doctor liable for elder abuse and reckless negligence because he had failed to order appropriate pain medication. This court judgment brought the issue of pain control for the terminally ill into sharper focus. The thought of dying in pain can contribute to the desire for suicide or assisted suicide. Since the 1990s a movement has emerged to improve pain management and thereby reduce the anxiety of both patients and caregivers.
What Is Pain?
Pain has been characterized in a variety of ways. There are physical definitions such as an ...
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