Setting Up a Pain Clinic for Cancer Pain Relief - the Cancer Pain Clinic
Abstract
Cancer Pain Relief requires a dedicated team whose goal should be to obtain satisfaction from attempting to relieve the intractable, unrelenting pain of a cancer patient who more often than not
is unable to sleep because of pain and is dying in pain. The Pain Clinic should preferably be a Therapeutic Pain Palliation one rather than a diagnostic clinic. The cancer patient in pain is a complex
entity; besides the pain experienced the spectre of death hangs over his or her head,environmental factors (family, work or employment commitments) bring in psycho'sociai and religious influences.
One does not treat the organ or system involved in the pain,one has to treat the patient as a whole human being bearing in mind the related factors that have produced this complex entity.
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