Dr Paul Brand, often hailed as one of the fathers of hand surgery for his reconstructive
work in persons with leprosy, wrote an insightful memoir titled “The Gift of Pain.”
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He argued “…rather than trying to ‘solve’ pain by eliminating it, we must learn to
listen to it, and then manage it” (p. 190).
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While pain is indeed the gift that nobody wants, the complexity of the phenomena
in both acute and persistent forms reflects the importance of pain to the maintenance
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