Is Suffering the Enemy?

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Mar 2002Publisher:JSTORJournal:The Hastings Center Report, volume 32, page 40 (issn: 0093-0334,

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Authors: Richard B, Gunderman;

doi: 10.2307/3528523

pmid: 11998770

Is Suffering the Enemy?

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Abstract

The relief of suffering is the great goal of medicine. That physicians give up on suffering when they can do nothing about the underlying condition is one of the contemporary criticisms of medicine. Yet even in irremediable suffering there is something noble, to which physicians should attend.

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Analgesics, Physician-Patient Relations, Humans, Pain, Pain Management, Philosophy, Medical, Stress, Psychological

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