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British Journal of Anaesthesia 2006 96(5):669-670; doi:10.1093/bja/ael062
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Impossible test or reasonable aim

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Editor—I read the editorial1 on the human right of patients to be pain free with some interest. I am not an acute pain specialist any more than any other jobbing anaesthetist but I felt that there was an element of strident evangelicalism in their article. Whilst the content of the article may be drawing the reader's attention to the statements of various laudable self-appointed bodies one must assume the authors are sympathetic to the views expressed, for the statements to be included. The takeaway message of the editorial is that pain relief should be a human right and that failure to treat pain is ‘substandard . . . [Full Text of this Article]

P. E. Macintyre1,*, S. M. Walker2, I. Power3 and S. A. Schug4

1Adelaide, Australia
2London, UK
3Edinburgh, UK
4Perth, Australia

*E-mail: pamela.macintyre@adelaide.edu.au


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