Responding to suffering

JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association

Volumn 314, Issue 24, 2015, Pages 2623-2624

  Epstein, Ronald M ^a   Back, Anthony L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASE MODIFYING ANTIRHEUMATIC DRUG; OPIATE;

ANKLE RADIOGRAPHY; ARTHRALGIA; ATTITUDE TO ILLNESS; CHRONIC PAIN; DEBRIDEMENT; DEPRESSION; DISEASE DURATION; DISTRESS SYNDROME; DRUG MEGADOSE; HIP ARTHROPLASTY; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; INTERSTITIAL CYSTITIS; JOINT SURGERY; LEG ULCER; MEDICAL CARE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MEDITATION; PATIENT CARE; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFOCUSING AND RECLAIMING; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SHORT SURVEY; SUFFERING; WEIGHT REDUCTION; ANALGESIA; CONVALESCENCE; EMPATHY; LIFE EVENT; MENTAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY;

CHRONIC PAIN; EMPATHY; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; PAIN MANAGEMENT; PATIENT-CENTERED CARE; PHYSICIAN'S ROLE; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84952023290     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2015.13004     Document Type: Short Survey

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