How Medicine Is Failing a Nation in Pain

Pain is central to every specialty, and we all played a part in the opioid crisis, says Dr Haider Warraich, author of The Song of Our Scars: The Untold Story of Pain.

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Eric J. Topol, MD, Director, Scripps Translational Science Institute; Professor of Molecular Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California; Editor-in-Chief, Medscape

Abraham Verghese, MD, Physician, author, and educator; Professor and Vice Chair, Theory & Practice of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California

Haider Warraich, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital; Associate Director, Heart Failure Program, VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA

The Song of Our Scars: The Untold Story of Pain. https://www.basicbooks.com/titles/haider-warraich/the-song-of-our-scars/9781541675292/

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