For the postoperative patient, when the source is a large hole in the integument, an analysis
of the sensory experience is hardly necessary. It hurts, and appropriate doses of a suitable …

Although post-operative pain has decidedadvantages as a testing ground fordrugs there are
certain fundamental difficulties: how can pain be graded and how can its relief be assessed …

Walking down a gleaming corridor of a modern hospital, glancing inside rooms filled with
electronic equipment that seems to surround today's patients even after relatively minor …

Deborah Padfield worked on ideas for images which Deborah photographed, either solely
or with their assistance. The resultant images were reviewed in further sessions. The images …

Page 1 NAMING O O the PAIN O O and GUIDING the CARE THE CENTRAL TASKS OF
DIAGNOSIS Donald D. Denton Page 2 " Page 3 Naming the Pain and Guiding the Care The …

Editorial 1021 discussions of pain, and clinicians typically are not looking for it [1, 2]. For
patients with pain, biomedical information can be perceived as lacking meaning in relation …

What is persistent pain? How do we communicate pain, not only in words but in visual
images and gesture? How do we respond to the pain of another, and can we do it better …

Pain is a psychological event that is described in terms of actual or potential tissue damage.
More importantly, pain is what the patient says it is—while expression of an individual's pain …

Like many other disciplines, medicine often resorts to metaphor in order to explain
complicated concepts that are imperfectly understood. But what happens when medicine's …

Experiential evidence shows that pain is associated with common meanings. These include
a meaning of threat or danger, which is experienced as immediately distressing or …