Medical Economics, April 26th, 2002
Memo FROM THE EDITOR
Last week, I witnessed a miracle: My 80-year-old aunt's voice sounded cheerful for the first time in about a year. She's been in pain for at least that long and it's gotten progressively worse. It's so bad that she takes a cart at the supermarket even if she's only getting a couple items-she needs it to lean on. Much of the fun has gone out of the trips her active senior organization takes; she hurts too much to go at the active pace she once did.
So, why did she sound so good two weeks ago? She'd finally seen a doctor who believed that she was in pain. The treatment he ...
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