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From: "Ben Erie" <benerie2002@...>
To: <benerie2002@...>
Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2003 9:41 AM
Subject: [pain-in-the-law] U.S. Medical Students to Get Pain Course Online
>
> http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=571&ncid=751&e=5&u=/nm/20030908/hl_nm/health_pain_dc
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> U.S. Medical Students to Get Pain Course Online
> Mon Sep 8, 2:31 PM ET
>
> WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Saying most U.S. medical
> schools are failing to teach physicians how to treat
> pain, leading doctors on Monday said they were
> introducing an online pain course for medical
> students.
>
> The Internet-based course will focus on the causes and
> treatment of pain, according to the American Academy
> of Pain Medicine, which is sponsoring the course.
>
> It cited a survey that found 57 percent of Americans
> suffered from chronic or recurrent pain in the past
> year. The survey of 1,000 adults by the nonprofit
> group ResearchAmerica found that 62 percent of these
> people said they had been in pain for more than a year
> and 40 percent were in pain all of the time.
>
> Only 3 percent of medical schools have a separate
> required course on pain management, and just 4 percent
> require a course in end-of-life care, according to
> another survey of 125 medical schools compiled by the
> Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC).
>
> The medical school survey found roughly half of all
> 2003 medical school graduates believed they had not
> been taught enough about pain.
>
> "If we are to effectively treat a future generation of
> pain patients, we first must educate that next
> generation of doctors who will care for them," said
> Dr. Jordan Cohen, AAMC president.
>
> "Untreated pain, tragically, is an epidemic in the
> United States," former Health and Human Services (news
> - web sites) Secretary Dr. Louis Sullivan, who is
> helping put together the new course, told a news
> conference.
>
> U.S. businesses lose about $100 billion every year
> because of days taken off and reduced productivity due
> to pain, as well as in direct medical and other
> benefit costs, said former U.S. Surgeon General Dr.
> David Satcher.
>
> "Untreated pain turns otherwise productive lives into
> an endless succession of agonizing days and sleepless
> nights," said Satcher, now director of the National
> Center for Primary Care at the Morehouse School of
> Medicine in Atlanta.
>
> Satcher's school will test the course starting this
> month, along with the University of Connecticut School
> of Medicine and the Texas College of Osteopathic
> Medicine.
>
> http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=571&ncid=751&e=5&u=/nm/20030908/hl_nm/health_pain_dc
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