• J Pain Symptom Manage · Nov 2012

    Biography Historical Article

    This chronic patient becomes a humanistic patient who helps clinicians.

    • W Andrew Achenbaum.
    • Graduate College of Social Work, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77006, USA. wachenba@central.uh.edu
    • J Pain Symptom Manage. 2012 Nov 1;44(5):784-8.

    AbstractA historian of aging, privileged to work with an interdisciplinary team of caregivers and researchers in a division of geriatric and palliative care of a major medical school and teaching hospital, discovers that his history of chronic illnesses secures him a useful role as a humanistic patient who helps clinicians to respond to the concerns, fears, and needs of aging Boomers.Copyright © 2012 U.S. Cancer Pain Relief Committee. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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