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[0:02] ..." Lander MD Ph.D. And I am an associate. Professor of neurology. At Harvard Medical School. And an assistant in. Pathology at mass general hospital."...
[1:03] ..." turns out that more people suffer from chronic pain. Then suffer from diabetes heart disease and cancer combined. Yet this is an issue. That has not yet made it onto the table in our debate on health"...
[2:57] ..." Buys or or. You know -- Arthur of one of the huge drug companies might be done behind his but it isn't."...
[3:04] ..." Absolutely not no connection with any drug companies can also no specific. To grind. Or. Treatment to push we are just urging. For better education. Physicians. Nurses and health care"...
[4:27] ..." touched patient. But even today could do more toward looking into the pathology. And the radiology. Of chronic pain conditions. So all positions specialties and all nurses. Need to be knowledgeable about pain management this"...
[0:00]" My full name is Anna Louise oak Lander MD Ph.D. And I am an associate. Professor of neurology. At Harvard Medical School. And an assistant in. Pathology at mass general hospital."
[0:19]" And Diane Stern WBZ news were discussing a new report by a panel of experts and the warning is that patients shouldn't just assumed that doctor. Is knowledgeable in treating pain effectively and even safely. Did you get this summer via the highlights of that report."
[0:35]" I'd be happy to demand that -- group of physicians. Other health care providers including nurses and pharmacists. Who met in Washington earlier this year. Two urged inclusion. Consideration. Of chronic pain in the debate. National health care reform. Chronic pain and issues that will touch many of us during our lives. It turns out that more people suffer from chronic pain. Then suffer from diabetes heart disease and cancer combined. Yet this is an issue. That has not yet made it onto the table in our debate on health care."
[1:22]" Is that because pain itself isn't. A life threatening it it's a condition that that telling people live with but it's not deadly."
[1:30]" It may be but I eat it and disabling. -- say as many of the other conditions that we deal. So. Certainly not everybody who has these other diseases. Died from men. What happens is that many of them are disabled by chronic pain. So more and more people are surviving cancer. Only to be left with chronic pain when their cancer is skewered. And the medical attention waned and no one has told them. What to do to get pain relief from Matt."
[2:06]" I'm curious that there who funded this. --"
[2:10]" This study is funded by the -- date fund which isn't nonprofit. Foundation. That is engaged in health care reform. It's say. Not it is that it's a private foundation that has no connection with the pharmaceutical industry. And these statements. Have been endorsed by thirty of the largest medical groups in the country. Including the American academy of neurology. The American College of Emergency Physicians the joint commission on health care. The academy of family physicians."
[2:52]" Yes because it did at first blush you would think album this is now with -- Buys or or. You know -- Arthur of one of the huge drug companies might be done behind his but it isn't."
[3:04]" Absolutely not no connection with any drug companies can also no specific. To grind. Or. Treatment to push we are just urging. For better education. Physicians. Nurses and health care providers. Better reimbursement. For pain management and evaluation. So that we can improve. The health care of the many Americans who suffer from this problem."
[3:36]" Is there advice to patients who would do have to deal with pain are there are some bullet points for them if you listen."
[3:41]" Yes the bullet point I'd like to leave patients with is often don't take no for an answer. There are effective treatment for. Almost all forms of chronic pain. And patient. Shouldn't have to settle. If your physicians indicate. That. They don't know how to treat chronic pain -- they're willing to treat chronic pain. Find someone -- done."
[4:10]" Certainly some doctors simply don't have the training in pain management soaring while also calling for a better training."
[4:16]" Absolutely. Every doctor should have training in pain management. The -- Except perhaps the pathologist and the radiologist who don't actually touched patient. But even today could do more toward looking into the pathology. And the radiology. Of chronic pain conditions. So all positions specialties and all nurses. Need to be knowledgeable about pain management this is one of the most common symptoms of disease regardless of cause we're all involved in it. And we need to get all. Health care providers more involved."
[4:55]" Certainly when you go visit patient in the hospital you see the chart that is that the faces and pain from one to attend. Should patients be more familiar with that chart and be able to articulate their -- and their -- based on those little faces."
[5:10]" Google faces are. Used most often with children. Or sometimes older patients who might be confused. Most. Of us can communicate clay communicate clearly with our positions. And need to give him information. About when we're having pain and how bad it is and how we would like it --"
[5:37]" This is all about quality of life."
[5:39]" Absolutely not just life but economics. Because it turns out that patients who -- relieve chronic pain. Many of them are. Not able to continue to work or to read their families. And there's a tremendous economic impact on the country. And relieve chronic pain as well."
[5:59]" The wanna thank you very much for joining us thank you for your time. And I'm Diane Stern WBZ Newsradio 1030."
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