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  • The Painful Truth

  • What Chronic Pain Is Really Like and Why It Matters to Each of Us
  • Written by: Lynn R. Webster MD
  • Narrated by: Rick Adamson
  • Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins

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Written by: Lynn R. Webster MD
Narrated by: Rick Adamson
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Chronic pain affects one in three Americans and exerts more than a $600 billion drain on the economy annually. It is the largest invisible epidemic in the land. Having treated thousands of patients with chronic pain - often when they were at their most vulnerable - Lynn R. Webster, MD, continues to believe there is hope. Ultimately, a cure for pain will require more research, better therapies, and improved policies. But healing can begin today with a broad-based approach to treatment, including compassionate support from those closest to the ones who are hurting.

The Painful Truth is an intimate collection of stories about people living with disabling pain, their attempts to heal, and the challenges that we collectively face in helping them live meaningful lives. As a physician who has treated people with chronic pain for more than 30 years, Dr. Webster reveals the difficulties that patients face in dealing with chronic pain in a society that is often shamefully prejudiced against those who are most in need of our empathy. He shares how such biases also affect medical professionals who treat patients with chronic pain.

©2015 Lynn R. Webster, MD (P)2016 Lynn R. Webster, MD
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