RT Book, Section
A1 Rathmell, James P.
A1 Fields, Howard L.
A2 Hauser, Stephen L.
A2 Josephson, S. Andrew
SR Print(0)
ID 1145767579
T1 PAIN: PATHOPHYSIOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT
T2 Harrison's Neurology in Clinical Medicine, 4e
YR 2018
FD 2018
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9781259835865
LK neurology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1145767579
RD 2024/04/19
AB The  province  of  medicine  is  to  preserve  and  restore  health  and  to  relieve  suffering.  Understanding  pain  is  essential  to  both  of  these  goals.  Because  pain  is  universally  understood  as  a  signal  of  disease,  it  is  the  most  common  symptom  that  brings  a  patient  to  a  physician’s  attention.  The  function  of  the  pain  sensory  system  is  to  protect  the  body  and  maintain  homeostasis.  It  does  this  by  detecting,  localizing,  and  identifying  potential  or  actual  tissue-damaging  processes.  Because  different  diseases  produce  characteristic  patterns  of  tissue  damage,  the  quality,  time  course,  and  location  of  a  patient’s  pain  lend  important  diagnostic  clues.  It  is  the  physician’s  responsibility  to  provide  rapid  and  effective  pain  relief.