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The amazing story of the man who gave us modern pain relief

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July 4, 2015

Latif Nasser: The amazing story of the man who gave us modern pain relief

13:51 minutes · Filmed Mar 2015 · Posted Jul 2015 · TED2015

For the longest time, doctors basically ignored the most basic and frustrating part of being sick -- pain. In this lyrical, informative talk, Latif Nasser tells the extraordinary story of wrestler and doctor John J. Bonica, who persuaded the medical profession to take pain seriously -- and transformed the lives of millions.

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He read every medical textbook he could get his hands on, carefully noting every mention of the word 'pain.' Out of the 14,000 pages he read, the word 'pain' was on seventeen and a half of them. Seventeen and a half. For the most basic, most common, most frustrating part of being a patient."

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