Here's the ABC series on pain that many are talking about. It's produced in collaboration with the American Academy of Pain Medicine, giving us a voice, so try to tune in or tape it if you can. Click on URL for complete synopsis, or see lineup below. With topics like these, we are finally getting to speak out to a very broad audience:
-"Battlefield Medicine on the Cutting Edge: Fewer deaths,
but more pain; how one doctor is trying to ease pain on the battlefield."
-"The Life of a Pain Specialist: Why do so few doctors
specialize in pain?"
-"Treating your pain. Who decides? Doctors or law
enforcement?"

Thanks.

Serenity

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http://www.painmed.org/MediaPage.html

ABC News and USA TODAY Host Special Pain Series
May 8 - 13, 2005
ABC News and USA TODAY will examine chronic pain in a week-long series beginning Saturday, May 7 on ABC and Monday, May 9 in USA TODAY. AAPM President Scott M. Fishman, MD worked closely with ABC and USA TODAY to develop the content and choose leading speakers for this series. The series, "The Fight Against Pain" will report on the causes of pain, the impact it has on our lives, work, family and even our mental outlook, and the new and promising treatments on the horizon. ABC News and USA TODAY will also look at what can be done to better educate and assist those struggling with pain and explore the types of resources available for them.

This special coverage will be reported on ABC News broadcasts and platforms including "World News Tonight with Peter Jennings", "Good Morning America", "Nightline", ABC News Radio and ABCNews.com. ABC News affiliates across the country will also participate.

USA TODAY's coverage of pain will be reported in the newspaper's News and Life sections and on USATODAY.com beginning May 9 and continuing each day for the entire week.

The week's coverage will include the release of an exclusive national public opinion poll on pain co-sponsored by ABC News, USA TODAY and the Stanford University Medical Center. Developed in consultation with Dr. Fishman and other nationally recognized pain specialists, the survey breaks new ground in measuring the extent to which Americans suffer from pain - in frequency and severity alike - and their strategies and successes in dealing with it. Portions of the survey will be posted on ABCNews.com and on USATODAY.com along with an interactive format on both websites that will let users compare their pain experiences with the survey's nationally representative results.

Among the issues the series will tentatively explore:

Good Morning America:

May 9 MONDAY: New Ways to Stop Pain

May 10 TUESDAY: Children and Pain

May 11 THURSDAY: Prayer and Pain

World News Tonight with Peter Jennings:

May 9 MONDAY: The Search for the Next Miracle Drug: How Big Pharma and academic researchers are looking for that next miracle drug or device.

May 10 TUESDAY: Pain in Children: What doctors are just starting to understand about how children feel pain.

May 11 WEDNESDAY: Battlefield Medicine on the Cutting Edge: Fewer deaths, but more pain; how one doctor is trying to ease pain on the battlefield.

May 12 THURSDAY: The Life of a Pain Specialist: Why do so few doctors specialize in pain?

Nightline:

May 11 WEDNESDAY Treating your pain. Who decides? Doctors or law enforcement?

Wee doggies, Got to watch nightline on the 11th..
Thanks for the info,
Alpha

Great job, Serenity, as usual!
We are on the same page again, as usual!
Thanks,
Savannah

Thanks for the post. Will watch nightline on wed. Del