Medicine has failed chronic pain patients. Here’s what they need
Modern healthcare has failed those in pain. It’s time to treat the whole patient with empathy, kindness – and the truth
by Haider Warraich
Haider Warraich is a physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and the VA Boston Healthcare System. He is the author of Modern Death (2017), State of the Heart (2019) and The Song of Our Scars: The Untold Story of Pain (2022), and regularly writes for The New York Times and The Washington Post, among others. He lives in Boston, Massachusetts.
Written by Haider Warraich