
The Song of Our Scars
The Untold Story of Pain
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Haider Warraich
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Fajer Al-Kaisi
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By:
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Haider Warraich
A doctor’s personal and unsparing account of how modern medicine’s failure to understand pain has made care less effective
In The Song of Our Scars, physician Haider Warraich offers a bold reexamination of the nature of pain, not as a simple physical sensation, but as a cultural experience.
Warraich, himself a sufferer of chronic pain, considers the ways our notions of pain have been shaped not just by science but by politics and power, by whose suffering mattered and whose didn’t. He weaves a provocative history from the Renaissance, when pain transformed into a medical issue, through the racial legacy of pain tolerance, to the opiate epidemics of both the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries, to the cutting edge of present-day pain science. The conclusion is clear: only by reckoning with both pain’s complicated history and its biology can today’s doctors adequately treat their patients’ suffering.
Trenchant and deeply felt, The Song of Our Scars is an indictment of a broken system and a plea for a more holistic understanding of the human body.
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This book is Truth
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While I am not in that category, I am on the receiving end of the medical treatment dispensed by these “experts”. I have been in chronic pain for decades due to a deteriorating spine and, like the author, have had to describe my pain in order to be dispensed a variety of pain relief modalities including drugs (which I cannot take) and physical therapy (which has been helpful).
After listening to this book, I now use different terms to describe what I am experiencing.
Excellent book, although written for the technician and not a lay person, I would still recommend it.
A little too much time spent repeating the sordid account of the Sackler family’s criminal influence with opioids & their adverse influence on our society. It was still valuable background information.
Overall, highly recommended reading.
Learn about why you hurt
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While I enjoyed the authors approach to covering so many aspects of pain and what we know of it the last third of the book seemed a bit choppy at times trying to cover so many facets of the topic.
While a great portion of the book recounts personal experience and that of so many others experiencing chronic pain, it differs from memoirs by also touching on topics like past and present research, clinical trials, the opioids crisis, and the impact race, geography, and gender play in the pain experience.
A good read if you want to better understand the your own pain, that of your patients, or even just to better understand the silent battle so many fight daily.
The author only narrates the first chapter, and while the other narrator is great, it took a while to come around the change in voice at first.
The authors personal experience only adds to the story and all it covers
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Fascinating
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It's unfortunate the author did not explore
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Not good for me...
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