[Reflecting on pain].
A reflection on pain as a scourge of mankind, analysing the different types or ways of appearance and the various theories about the creation mechanisms arisen in the course of time. We consider the doctor/patient communication problems, faced with the different languages spoken by the two main characters of this drama. The progresses made in the two types of units which are currenfly aimed at treating acute or chronic pain are referred to, concluding that the problem of pain persists despite the constant therapeutic improvements, and advising the inclusion of Algiology into university curricula in order to facilitate the training of true superspecialists, capable of putting an end to pain.
Académico de Número de la Real Academia de Medicina de Cataluña.
Miguel Angel
MA
Nalda Felipe
D006801:Humans; D010146:Pain