You Don't Have to Suffer: A Complete Guide to Relieving Cancer Pain for Patients and Their Families

by Susan S. Lang

Book Overview

On March 2, 1994, the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (a division of the Public Health Service) made headlines by releasing new cancer pain management guidelines. That report revealed that pain is frequently undertreated, and that relief is not only possible for most patients, but actually aids in recovery. For many cancer victims, the agency's guidelines offered new hope; for Dr. Richard B. Patt and coauthor Susan S. Lang, it was a resounding...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195084195
• ISBN13: 9780195084191
• Release Date: June 1995
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

"You Don't Have to Suffer"

State of the art review of the techniques for dealing with chronic and acute pain. Clear, consise, yet thorough examinations of the various treatments for acute and chronic pain. Extensively annotated so that you can dig deeper. Richard Patt is a doctor who rises to the level of physician unlike a major sector of the medical community which seems more concerned with their real estate investments than their patients. Twenty years from now the treatments advocated in this guide will be "best practices" for everyone who suffers physical pain not just for the rich, the lucky, and the committed as the vast majority of pain management is today.

Invaluable guide to dealing with cancer pain

This book was enormously valuable to me in helping my father through his final illness. My deepest thanks to the authors and the publisher!

Hot Stuff!

Readers should know that the second author of this valuable text can no longer be reached at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, and is best reached at "RPatt@cancerpain.org." Thanks you & best wishes,RP

Every person with severe pain needs this book!

"You Don't Have to Suffer" is one of the most helpful, honest, clearly written books on the management of long-term, severe pain that I have ever read. Every cancer patient who has or fears having pain needs to own and read this book. It is also appropriate and helpful for people with severely painful, progressive conditions like endometriosis, sickle-cell disease, lupus, or any painful condition that is being treated with narcotic medications. The clear and thorough writing in this book helped me to understand the difference between drug tollerance and drug addiction, to know why my doctors were uncomfortable prescribing appropriately strong medication, and gave me the ammunition and courage I needed to go to a pain clinic and get treatment to control my pain and allow me to live my life.