Some things, like pain, know no borders. The reaction of insensitive doctors to someone else’s pain is another. Ruth (not her real name) had grown up in [...]
In their 128-page report, “Global State of Pain Treatment: Access to Palliative Care as a Human Right“, Human Rights Watch (HRW) highlights the fact that tens of [...]
Should it not be? This was one of the major points discussed during a meeting organized by the International Federation of Health and Human Rights [...]
Do you see a scar going round the neck? That scar should be on our collective conscience. “Ramesh” (not his real name) is just 25. [...]
For those who attended the palliative care conference in Fresno last month, it was indeed a powerful experience to listen to a talk by Dianne [...]
Kathy Kreiter, the executive director of International Association for Study of Pain (IASP) brings our attention to another report from the Economist, Pain in Africa: [...]
When a child is in agonizing pain, if you have the means at your disposal to relieve that pain safely, yet refuse to use them, [...]
SPOTLIGHT… It is wonderful to get bouquets; but brickbats help us to improve. We got such an opportunity recently during a support group meeting for [...]
SPOTLIGHT… Being a senior doctor and medical Professor, everyone treated me well and with deference during my cancer treatment. But I still did not get [...]
Martha Ann Overland reports for Time Magazine from Hanoi: After the hospital sent Nguyen Van Dung home to die, his family watched helplessly as he [...]
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