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The Worst of Evils: The Fight Against Pain - Book review
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Deadening pain.
THE WORST OF EVILS: THE FIGHT AGAINST PAIN by THOMAS DORMANDY Yale University Press, 560 pages, $35
IN 1983, MY FATHER, who was dying of colon cancer, underwent surgery. When I visited him after the procedure, I was aghast to find him lying in bed, clearly in agony, pressing an ice pack against his abdomen. "Didn't the doctors offer you any pain pills?" I asked. They had, Dad admitted, but he had refused the medicine. "Why would you do that?" I demanded. Dad's sad answer: "I don't want to get addic...See the full content of this document
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