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The heartbreak and joy of missions-based pain medicine: a pain physician’s perspective

Donna-Ann Thomas, MD
Physician
September 27, 2022

A guest column by the American Society of Anesthesiologists, exclusive to KevinMD.com.

Approximately 30 percent of the world’s population reports living with some form of pain, ranging from headaches to joint pain to cancer-related pain. Unfortunately, pain medicine expertise and the medications and non-drug therapies available to relieve pain are not as widely distributed as …

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The heartbreak and joy of missions-based pain medicine: a pain physician’s perspective

A mission trip to Kenya: Challenge, success and heartbreak

Donna-Ann Thomas, MD
Physician
May 20, 2014

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A guest column by the American Society of Anesthesiologists, exclusive to KevinMD.com.

Mission must have always been in my blood, but it took me a while to discover it. I considered going on a mission trip to Bungoma, Kenya, in 2009, but the timing coincided with one of the major conferences at the New York State Society of …

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A mission trip to Kenya: Challenge, success and heartbreak

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