What do people really want? Re: free booklet: Pain; the Current Understanding of Assessment, Management, Treatment

[Guest guest]

Extraneous Text deleted by Moderator

This looks like a great resource, and leads me to ask everyone a question.

I have only recently joined this group, and I read some unbelievable stories

about people all over the world...some sad, some inspirational and some utterly

beyond belief.

It leads me to ask a question of all of you who (us) are suffering from chronic

pain...and that question is what do you really want? What is the most important

thing to you?

Now I know you are going to say you want your pain to go away, but more

specifically what do you want from the medical system?

If the medical system could change tomorrow and do a better job of addressing

your needs, what change would that be?

I am very interested to hear your thoughts....chronic pain is such an epidemic

in our society that there needs to be some root cause, some underlying issue

that we need to uncover and work to resolve....and I wonder if the medical

system as a whole could be a place to start?!

Thanks for listening

JB