Philip A. Pizzo, M.D., and Noreen M. Clark, Ph.D., N Engl J Med 2012; 366:197-199 January 19, 2012
Philip A. Pizzo, M.D., and Noreen M. Clark, Ph.D., have authored a perspective essay in Thursday’s issue of the New England Journal of Medicine asserting that the amount of needless suffering caused by both acute and chronic pain in the United States is a major, overlooked medical problem that requires improved education at multiple levels, stretching from the implementation of new public health campaigns to better training of primary care physicians in pain management. Dr. Pizzo is Dean of Stanford University’s School of Medicine and Dr. Clark is director of the Center for Managing Chronic Disease at the University of Michigan. They were chair and vice-chair, respectively, of an IOM committee that issued a report in June that found that more than 116 million Americans have pain that persists for weeks.
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