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'The Time is Now for Better Pain Care for Patients' - Physician Leaders from Across Medicine Conclude from a Closed-Door Pain Summit
Date:11/10/2009

in should be improved in medical schools, residency and fellowship programs, as well as in training programs for allied health workers.
  • Additional funding needs to be made available for continued research in pain.
  • A model of collaboration between primary care and specialty physicians should be evaluated and disseminated among physicians so patients can find the right physician to see for their pain.
  • Consumers need to be told that better pain care is available and how to access it.
  • Finally, the physician leaders uniformly agreed that changes have to be made within the structures of organized medicine to accommodate better pain care for patients, namely pain should be recognized as a specialty and pain should be treated as a disease.

    • The AMA Section Council Pain Summit was part of the pre-meeting activities of the AMA's Interim House of Delegates meeting in Houston, Texas, which takes place through Wednesday of this week. The Pain Summit was organized by the Pain and Palliative Medicine Specialty Section Council in response to Resolution 321, adopted by the American Medical Association House of Delegates in May of 2008 that expressed a strong commitment to better access and delivery of quality pain care through the promotion of enhanced research, education and clinical practice in the field of pain medicine.

    In addition to over 28 prominent medical associations that participated in the overall summit process, representatives from the medical branches of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, and the United States Air Force, Army and Navy were present.

    The mission of the summit was "to strive for excellence in the delivery of high-quality, cost effective pain care to the patients we serve." To facilitate the process, physician leaders from participating medical associations had been queried prior to the summit to organize topics for discussions. Once together, physicians were divi
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