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Abstract
A patient, long before becoming the subject of medical scrutiny is, at first simply a storyteller, a narrator of suffering-a traveler who has visited the kingdom of the ill. "To relieve an illness one must begin, then, by understanding the story." The Emperor of All Maladies; Siddhartha Mukherjee.Entities:
Keywords: Chronic pain; Life stories; Prescription opioid; Suffering
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Year: 2017 PMID: 28363323 DOI: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2016.08.643
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Drug Alcohol Depend ISSN: 0376-8716 Impact factor: 4.492