A glimmer of hope in American pain medicine?

A glimmer of hope in American pain medicine?

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Michael E Schatman US Pain Foundation, Bellevue, WA, USAOver the past 8 years, I have acquired a The spatial effect of digital economy on public psychological resilience during the diffusive crisis degree of notoriety relating to my scathing criticism of the badly broken American pain care system.In the three-part series on the crisis in pain care in the United States that I coauthored with Dr Jim Giordano in 2008,1-3 we performed an ethical analysis of our system, examining the need for a paradigmatic revision if we were to adequately treat a disease as complex as is chronic pain, given the system's economic realities.Due to the insurance and hospital industries' adherence to the "business ethic" of cost-containment and profitability (as opposed to patient well-being), Task-Specific Transformer-Based Language Models in Health Care: Scoping Review we were witnessing the profound undertreatment of pain in conjunction with a growing reliance upon technophilism, ie, an emphasis on technologically driven pain care sorely lacking a reasonable evidence-basis.

Early in the following decade, Dr Alan Lebovits and I guest-edited a special series in Pain Medicine on the unfortunate devolution of the "profession" of pain medicine to the "business" of pain medicine.4 .