Doctors and other health professionals have been urged to have greater awareness of their own potential to inadvertently contribute to the stigmatisation of their chronic pain patients through negative empathy. Stigmatization of Patients with Chronic Pain: The Extinction of Empathy is a paper published recently in the journal Pain Medicine. It warns health professionals they could be unintentionally contributing to the negative community stereotypes of chronic pain sufferers and can be challenged when confronted with a clinical problem, such as chronic pain, that they cannot readily understand.
Pain Medicine is the Official Journal of the American Academy of Pain Medicine and of the Faculty of Pain Medicine of the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists and of the International Spine Intervention Society. Contact your library to access the fulltext of this article.
Pain Medicine; Volume 12, Issue 11, November 2011, Pages: 1637–1643, Milton Cohen, John Quintner, David Buchanan, Mandy Nielsen and Lynette Guy
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