Advocacy for Chronic Pain Patients
Advocacy for Chronic Pain Patients
Advocacy for chronic pain patients is the voice for all people involved. Advocacy is the answer to some better pain care for its patients. Advocacy is the voice in Congress so that these people can be heard. Advocacy is getting better educated on the chronic pain management and how to help patients deal with their pain. The research I have done is search the web and read articles on chronic pain. The most influential part is that I have met and interviewed a doctor that if the founder and medical advisor of the American Pain Institute. He has come a long way and he knows his pain. He stands firm on the support of pain patients. The websites that are helpful are: www.WellnessClinicofRoland.com, www.AmericanPainInststute.org and also emailing the chair person for pain patient’s commission at mspaincoalition@yahoo.com. Also by reading articles by the Institute of Medicine and reading up on the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. “Chronic pain affects about 100 million American adults-more than the total affected by heart disease, cancer, and diabetes combined. Pain also costs the nation up to $635 billion each year in medical treatment and lost productivity. “Pain is a public health problem. Pain patients are not ”druggies.” Undoubtedly, there are those who abuse prescription medication, but there are those who genuinely suffer from chronic pain and require prescription medication in order to manage their pain so they can live normal lives. Pain patient advocacy is important to these people and I want to be one. I want to be the
Advocacy for chronic pain patients is the voice for all people involved. Advocacy is the answer to some better pain care for its patients. Advocacy is the voice in Congress so that these people can be heard. Advocacy is getting better educated on the chronic pain management and how to help patients deal with their pain. The research I have done is search the web and read articles on chronic pain. The most influential part is that I have met and interviewed a doctor that if the founder and medical advisor of the American Pain Institute. He has come a long way and he knows his pain. He stands firm on the support of pain patients. The websites that are helpful are: www.WellnessClinicofRoland.com, www.AmericanPainInststute.org and also emailing the chair person for pain patient’s commission at mspaincoalition@yahoo.com. Also by reading articles by the Institute of Medicine and reading up on the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. “Chronic pain affects about 100 million American adults-more than the total affected by heart disease, cancer, and diabetes combined. Pain also costs the nation up to $635 billion each year in medical treatment and lost productivity. “Pain is a public health problem. Pain patients are not ”druggies.” Undoubtedly, there are those who abuse prescription medication, but there are those who genuinely suffer from chronic pain and require prescription medication in order to manage their pain so they can live normal lives. Pain patient advocacy is important to these people and I want to be one. I want to be the