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British Journal of Anaesthesia 2008 101(1):4-7; doi:10.1093/bja/aen104
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The Faculty of Pain Medicine of the Royal College of Anaesthetists

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Those who deny progress have many things in their favour. The collective amnesia of how things were in the past is the most powerful. ... . . And then there is a tendency, when thinking about whether progress has been made, to compare how things are with how they should be or how we would like them to be, rather than with how they once were.

Hippocratic Oaths Raymond Tallis 2004.

The establishment of a Faculty of Pain Medicine by the Royal College of Anaesthetists (RCoA) in April 2007 represented the passing of another major waypoint in the development of pain medicine, and it helped to demonstrate the distance travelled by the specialty in the last 50 yr. Pain medicine describes the work of specially qualified medical practitioners who undertake the comprehensive management of patients with acute, chronic, and cancer pain using physical, pharmacological, interventional, and psychological techniques in a . . . [Full Text of this Article]

D. M. Justins

Faculty of Pain Medicine of the Royal College of Anaesthetists
Churchill House
35 Red Lion Square
London WC1R 4SG
UK

* E-mail: douglas.justins@gstt.nhs.uk


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Pain Training in the UK
William E Rea
British Journal of Anaesthesia, 11 Aug 2008 [Full text]