It’s a sad fact of life that war is good for business. Companies that manufacture weapons need to prove their technology works. So small wars are excellent testing grounds for both the current and new ideas. If everything performs as it should, other governments around the world will buy the systems for their own armed [...]
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The politics of pain management
Doctors make a general distinction between acute pain from an injury that’s going to heal or disease that’s going to be cured, and chronic pain where you will be forced to deal with pain over a long period of time. So, for acute pain, all you need is a few pills and patience while the [...]
What is pain management?
To start us off, let’s take in a simple statistic. The National Institutes of Health currently estimates the US economy loses more than $100 billion per year on healthcare expenses, lost productivity and lost earnings caused by chronic pain. People in serious pain cannot go to work and take up time in the healthcare system. [...]
