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Apr 27, 2021
4 minutes
by BARRY BOYCE, AMBER TUCKER, KYLEE ROSS, OYINDA LAGUNJU, and AVA WHITNEY-COULTER
AN ANATOMY OF PAIN
How the Body and the Mind Experience and Endure Physical Suffering
Abdul-Ghaaliq Lalkhen, MD • Scribner
Anyone whose doctor ever asked them to describe pain on a scale from 1 to 10 knows just how hazy our understanding of pain is. There is perhaps nothing more private, or more lonesome, than your own pain. Even though pain is the main event that causes us to seek medical attention, if a doctor can’t find the source of the pain, and treat it, they’re very unlikely to have much sophisticated help to offer you for managing the pain.
Dr. Lalkhen, who has been helping patients with pain for over two decades, and
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