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Inside St Vincent’s H ealth insights from inside one of Australia’s leading hospitals

Inside St Vincent’s H ealth insights from inside one of Australia’s leading hospitals. Professor Milton Cohen , Senior Specialist in Pain Medicine and Rheumatology at St Vincent’s Hospital. Professor Richard Day AM , Director of Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology at St Vincent’s Hospital.

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Inside St Vincent’s H ealth insights from inside one of Australia’s leading hospitals

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  1. Inside St Vincent’sHealth insights from inside one of Australia’s leading hospitals Professor Milton Cohen, Senior Specialist in Pain Medicine and Rheumatology at St Vincent’s Hospital. Professor Richard Day AM, Director of Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology at St Vincent’s Hospital. Associate Professor Steven Faux, Director of Rehabilitation Medicine and Pain Medicine at St Vincent’s Hospital. Jane Worthington, Journalist and Health Reporter.

  2. “To have pain is to have certainty; to hear about pain is to have doubt.”Elaine Scarry, 1985 “Johnny, are you in pain?” “No, Mummy. The pain is in me.”The Advertiser, 1927 Quoted in The Lancet , 30 June 2012 “Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.” Kahlil Gibran

  3. Prevalence Related disability 25% Affected By 2020 Cost 3.2 million 0.8 million 6.4 million 5 million $34B Chronic Pain is a Public Health Issue in Australia Source Access Economics/MBF Foundation, 2007

  4. PAIN An unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage or described in terms of such damage

  5. “Types” of Pain • “Acute” pain • usually short duration • usually associated with “tissue damage” • “Cancer” pain • associated with the disease itself • “Chronic” or “persistent” non-cancer pain • includes pain after cancer treatment

  6. ENVIRONMENT PERSON BRAIN AND NERVOUS SYSTEM BODY

  7. ENVIRONMENT What’s happening in your world PERSON What’s happening to you as a person BRAIN AND NERVOUS SYSTEM What’s happening to your body BODY

  8. Inside St Vincent’sHealth insights from inside one of Australia’s leading hospitals Professor Milton Cohen, Senior Specialist in Pain Medicine and Rheumatology at St Vincent’s Hospital. Professor Richard Day AM, Director of Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology at St Vincent’s Hospital. Associate Professor Steven Faux, Director of Rehabilitation Medicine and Pain Medicine at St Vincent’s Hospital. Jane Worthington, Journalist and Health Reporter.

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