TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Chapter 5. Understanding the Patient with Chronic Pain A1 - Goodwin, Jeremy A1 - Bajwa, Zahid H. A2 - Warfield, Carol A. A2 - Bajwa, Zahid H. PY - 2004 T2 - Principles & Practice of Pain Medicine, 2e AB - Asked to describe their pain, especially chronic pain, patients often appear perplexed, stating, “I don’t know. It just hurts.” Pain is a subject of deceptive complexity. It means different things to different people. Algology is the study of pain, and this chapter discusses a number of important points relevant to its clinical application, pain medicine. SN - PB - The McGraw-Hill Companies CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/04/18 UR - accessanesthesiology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=3414578 ER -