'Zero pain is not the goal' of medical treatment, doctors say
Wednesday, March 16, 2016 - 09:20
in Health & Medicine
As doctors contemplate a future without opiates to treat chronic pain, some are making the case that eliminating their patients’ pain is not only impossible, it’s unnecessary. “Zero pain is not the goal,” Dr. Thomas H. Lee, chief medical officer of the healthcare consulting firm Press Ganey, wrote...